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| Libyan Soldier, Policemen Shot Dead in Benghazi |
| 2013-11-30 |
| [An Nahar] A soldier and a coppers were rubbed out on Friday in another day of violence targeting security forces in Libya's second city Benghazi, a hospital official said. The killings come a day after three soldiers were killed in festivities there with jihadist group 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 Libya, Tunisia and Yemen, with the Libyan and Tunisian versions currently most active... , and three more maimed in a subsequent attack. Separately, another soldier had been killed in a drive-by shooting in broad daylight as he left a cafe with a comrade who escaped unscathed. The details of Friday's killings were sketchy, with a security source saying only that the two men were on duty when they died. Thursday was the last day of a three-day strike to protest the presence of militias in the city, which was the cradle of the 2011 uprising the ousted long-time dictator Muammar Qadaffy ...a reminder that a single man with an idea can change an entire nation, usually for the worse... But on Friday, hundreds of people turned out again to denounce the violence, express their support for government forces and denounce extremism. The demonstration was marred when some went kaboom!a homemade bomb near the gathering, lightly wounding one person, an Agence La Belle France Presse journalist reported. The strike was sparked by a Monday shootout between jihadists and the army that killed seven people and maimed 50. Since Qadaffy was ousted and killed, transitional authorities in the North African nation have been plagued by security problems. They have tried in vain to integrate most former rebels into the regular armed forces, with many militias carving their own fiefdoms, each with its own ideology and regional allegiances. |
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