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| Suicide Bombs Hit Libya Government's Tobruk ex-Base |
| 2014-11-13 |
| [AnNahar] Twin suicide kabooms Wednesday hit the remote town where Libya's internationally recognized government took refuge earlier this year, among a series of attacks in the restive east, security sources said. At least 20 people were maimed, four of them seriously, when the bombers blew up vehicles in the heart of Tobruk, an interior ministry official said. The town, close to the Egyptian border and 1,600 kilometers (1,000 miles) east of 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... , is still the base of the contested parliament elected in June but the government recently moved its headquarters to the nearby town of Shahat. Both government and parliament took refuge in the remote east when Islamist-backed militias seized the capital in August. The official said the bombs did not strike near the hotel which houses parliament. But a politician said security measures had been stepped up for fear of further attacks. The parliament was annulled by the supreme court last week but its anti-Islamist majority has refused to accept the judgement, saying it was handed down under duress. Three years after dictator Moamer Qadaffy was toppled and killed in a NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the cut of the American pants... -backed revolt, Libya is awash with weapons and powerful militias, and run by rival governments and parliaments. Another boom-mobile, also believed to be a suicide kaboom, on Wednesday struck near the Al-Abraq air base, also in eastern Libya. Five soldiers were maimed in the attack, a security official said, but a medic reported two dead. |
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