Heavy fighting rocks Libyan capital as rival militia battle

[Bosonic]

Source: Reuters

Rival militiamen battled each other for hours with anti-aircraft guns and grenades across Tripoli on Thursday, killing at least one person and wounding 12 in the worst fighting for months in the Libyan capital, medical sources said.

The second outbreak of street fighting within days shows how the government is struggling to contain militias which helped overthrow Muammar Gaddafi two years ago but kept their guns after the NATO-backed uprising.

A security source told Reuters that a heavily-armed group from the central city of Misrata had entered the capital in the evening to take revenge for the killing of one of its fighters in a smaller shootout in Tripoli on Tuesday.

Gunfire broke out while young people were enjoying a water pipe on the seafront and families were shopping or dining at the start of the weekend.

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/11/07/us-libya-security-idUSBRE9A619I20131107

[marble falls]

1. So when are the Teapublicans and Teabillies going to hold Congressional hearings on how its the ....

President's fault?

[TomClash]

2. "Free people"

Many DUers jubilant over Qaddafi's demise are now missing. Why is that?

[Throd]

3. I'm sad about what is happening there now, and fuck Khaddafi!

I'm not hiding. I'm glad Khaddafi (Qaddafi, or the other 87 spellings of his name) is gone. He was a murderous and tyrannical dickweed. I hope the people of the region can soon get back to a normal life, but it looks like that may take a while.