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Africa North
Embassy blast vehicles caught on security cameras
2013-04-24
[Libya Herald] A white vehicle is thought be one of three involved in this morning's kaboom on the French embassy.

The vehicles were caught on a neighbours's security cameras arriving outside the embassy at around 7.05 am. According to the neighbour, a shout of "Alahu Akhbar" was heard coming from the direction of the white vehicle.

There are not further details as yet.

It is not known if one or more boom-mobiles were detonated up in the attack.

Meanwhile,
...back at the Esquimeau village our hero was receiving a quick lesson in aeronautics......
a host of government ministers and security official headed to the site to see for themselves what had happened, among them Deputy Prime Minister Awad Barasi and Interior Minister Ashour Shuwail.

Asked if he was aware of any specific threats made against the French embassy, Shawail said that intelligence reports would be part of the enquiry. "We have to wait and see. Invstigations are at an early stage'" he said.

"Security will be tightened," as a result of the attack, he said.

Neighbours have pointed out that there were no Libyan security guards on duty outside the embassy at the time of the blast. This has drawn criticism. According to one source, the attack occurred during the guards' shift change.
Posted by:Fred

#2  War whoops...the old and the new...

Posted by: Pliny the Cheap6130   2013-04-24 21:44  

#1  According to the neighbour, a shout of "Alahu Akhbar" was heard coming from the direction of the white vehicle

AKA: the traditional Maori war cry.
Posted by: Frank G   2013-04-24 09:33  

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