Top intelligence chief abducted as Libya marks strike

Global Post ^ | November 17, 2013 12:16 | AFP

[Pan_Yan]

Libya's deputy intelligence chief Mustafa Nuh was abducted Sunday in Tripoli, a security official said, as the capital observed a three-day strike after deadly unrest triggered fears of civil war.

The violence was the deadliest in the city since the 2011 uprising and erupted Friday when demonstrators took to the streets to protest against an unruly militia of ex-rebels who helped to topple dictator Moamer Kadhafi.

At least 43 people were killed and more than 450 wounded in violence that raged overnight and into Saturday, the health ministry said.

Tripoli city council late Saturday announced a three-day strike across the private and public sector to mourn the dead, also urging citizens to exercise "calm and restraint".

But people exasperated by the government's failure to rein in militias set fires ablaze and put up barricades on major roads, blocking them to traffic amid calls for civil disobedience, AFP reporters said.

[Pan_Yan]

The central government had little control outside Tripoli and now has lost control of the capitol. The oil has all but stopped, the eastern half of the country has declared independence and Benghazi flies the Al Qaeda flag proudly. More 'green shoots' from Obama's 'Arab Spring.'

[SunkenCiv]

Oh no, a civil war in Libya, who saw that coming? Wait, what? It’s been going on for almost three years already, you say? :’) Thanks Pan_Yan.

[Defiant]

Sounds like his intelligence wasn’t very good.