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| Three more Derna murders as security protest strike flops |
| 2013-11-28 |
| [Libya Herald] Derna has seen another troubled day in which the bodies of two soldiers, apparently seized from a roadblock, were found this morning in a vehicle in the east of the town. A further badly-decayed body, as yet unidentified, was discovered on a beach. It is understood that the two members of the Saiqa special forces had been part of a unit manning a checkpoint to the west of Derna. This had been put in place to stop Ansar Al-Sharia elements from the city moving to Benghazi during Monday's fighting. Their bodies were discovered near the coast in the Al-Satlatt area of eastern Derna. The men, reportedly identified from their papers when they were moved to Hareesh hospital mortuary, were Mahmoud Al-Hamri from Beida and Khaled Boujinah from Tobruk. A hospital source has told the Libya Herald that both men had been shot in the head and one of them in the heart. Their families had come to collect them. Video had been posted on a Facebook site showing an almost completely beheaded corpse in a hospital morgue. This was claimed to be one of the men. Similar doubts have been cast on part of the footage put up on an Ansar al-Sharia ...a Salafist militia which claims it is not part of al-Qaeda, even though it works about the same and for the same ends. There are groups of the same name in Tunisia and Yemen, with the Tunisian version currently most active... website. An early sequence shows the Iraqi lecturer, Hamid Khalf, kidnapped in Derna four days ago, reading a statement in which he links his abduction to the hangings in Iraq of Libyans convicted of killing Iraqi citizens. Though his face shows signs of violence, Khalf speaks steadily to the camera, whose operator can just be seen in the reflection of his glasses. |
| Posted by:Fred |