Saturday, July 30, 2011

Libyan rebels to probe commander's killing

The Libyan National Transitional Council has formed an "investigative committee" to probe the assassination of the head of their armed forces and two of his aides after a special forces officer and opposition minister said fellow rebels killed them.
Abdel Fattah Younes and his aides were shot dead and their bodies reportedly burned by gunmen on Thursday, creating a power vacuum at the top of the military hierarchy and raising questions about divided allegiances within the opposition.
Ali Tarhouni, the NTC oil minister, said that a rebel militia leader who had been asked to fetch Younes from the front line near the town of Brega had been arrested and had confessed that his subordinates carried out the killing.
"The NTC has appointed an investigative committee and we will publish all the facts of this investigation," Tarhouni said, according to the AFP news agency.
"The head of the militia is imprisoned now," Tarhouni said, adding that some of the perpetrators were yet to be incarcerated and that their motive remained unclear. "We don't know who they work for."

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