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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums(Another Take) Libya official says Gaddafi loyalists killed U.S. diplomats
No endorsement of this view, or any other, here. Just providing the range of opinion.
(This would be the most desirable scenario for us, by far.)
Libya official says Gaddafi loyalists killed U.S. diplomats
Source: Reuters
A senior Libyan official accused supporters of the late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi of carrying out an attack that killed the U.S. ambassador to Libya and three other Americans in Benghazi.
Deputy Interior Minister Wanis al-Sharif told a news conference in Benghazi that the attackers had used rocket-propelled grenades.
"There were RPGs...which shows there were forces exploiting this. They are remnants of the (former) regime," he said. The news conference was broadcast on Al Jazeera television.
He suggested that the attackers could have been acting in revenge for the extradition from Mauritania this month of Gaddafi's former intelligence chief Abdullah al-Senoussi.
Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/09/12/us-libya-usa-attack-loyalists-idUSBRE88B0K920120912
Source: Reuters
A senior Libyan official accused supporters of the late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi of carrying out an attack that killed the U.S. ambassador to Libya and three other Americans in Benghazi.
Deputy Interior Minister Wanis al-Sharif told a news conference in Benghazi that the attackers had used rocket-propelled grenades.
"There were RPGs...which shows there were forces exploiting this. They are remnants of the (former) regime," he said. The news conference was broadcast on Al Jazeera television.
He suggested that the attackers could have been acting in revenge for the extradition from Mauritania this month of Gaddafi's former intelligence chief Abdullah al-Senoussi.
Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/09/12/us-libya-usa-attack-loyalists-idUSBRE88B0K920120912
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(Another Take) Libya official says Gaddafi loyalists killed U.S. diplomats (Original Post)
cthulu2016
Sep 2012
OP
Not likely in Benghazi, which is the center of the breakaway opposition movement
leveymg
Sep 2012
#1
Another reason why jumping to conclusions before having hard intellgence
aint_no_life_nowhere
Sep 2012
#2
leveymg
(36,418 posts)1. Not likely in Benghazi, which is the center of the breakaway opposition movement
in the Barqa region. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/libya/9126006/Libya-tribal-leaders-break-away-from-interim-government.html
The thousands of representatives of major tribal leaders, militia commanders and politicians who made the declaration at a conference in Benghazi said the move is not intended to divide the country and that they want their state to be part of a united Libya.
The conference said the eastern state, known as Barqa, would have its own parliament, police force, courts and capital - Benghazi, the country's second largest city - to run its own affairs. Under their plan, foreign policy, the national army and oil resources would be left to a central, federal government in Tripoli. Barqa would cover nearly half the country, from central Libya to the Egyptian border in the east and down to the borders with Chad and Sudan in the south.
The conference said the eastern state, known as Barqa, would have its own parliament, police force, courts and capital - Benghazi, the country's second largest city - to run its own affairs. Under their plan, foreign policy, the national army and oil resources would be left to a central, federal government in Tripoli. Barqa would cover nearly half the country, from central Libya to the Egyptian border in the east and down to the borders with Chad and Sudan in the south.
aint_no_life_nowhere
(21,925 posts)2. Another reason why jumping to conclusions before having hard intellgence
on the incident just isn't Presidential.