Gaddafi loyalists killed US diplomats: Libya

US ambassador to Libya and three other Americans staff have been killed in a rocket attack in Benghazi.

A senior Libyan official accused supporters of the late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi of carrying out an attack that killed the US ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens 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.

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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.

Gaddafi was ousted by rebel forces backed by NATO air power in August 2011 and was killed in October after months as a fugitive.

outside the RJD party office in Patna on Friday. Partners of the alliance filed nomination papers for all 121 seats going to polls in the first phase – the total strength of the Bihar House is 243 – while talks continued to end the deadlock over seats.

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