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Africa North
Libya's military chief of staff resigns following Benghazi clashes
2013-06-10
[TELEGRAPH.CO.UK] Major Gen Yussef al-Mangoush, the chief of staff, was censured by Libya leaders over the handling of the demonstration by crowds demanding the disbanding of the Libya Shield battalion.

Fighting broke out at the headquarters of the Libya Shield brigade in Benghazi as resentment spilled over against the continuing failure of the new authorities to break up the armed factions nearly two years after the fall of Muammar Qadaffy
...Custodian of Wheelus AFB for 42 long years until he was ejected from the gene pool by his indignant citizens...

Major Gen Mangoush presides over armed forces that are too weak to maintain security in a country awash with weapons. Tripoli
...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn...
has found itself having to co-opt or license some of the most powerful militias to maintain even a semblance of order.

Doctors in Benghazi, the cradle of the revolution against Col Qadaffy's crazed dictatorship, said army loyalists were among those killed when the protesters and militia fought a battle throughout Saturday.

"The corpse count now stands at 31 as more people shuffled off the mortal coil this morning," a doctor at the al-Jalaa hospital said. "There are more than 100 injured, some very seriously."
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