Libya rebels say Younis killers were 'Islamist element'

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Source: The Guardian

The gunmen who shot dead the Libyan rebels' military chief Abdul Fatah Younis were members of an Islamist-linked militia allied to the campaign to overthrow Muammar Gaddafi, according to a National Transitional Council minister.

After 24 hours of confusion surrounding the death, the NTC's oil minister, Ali Tarhouni, said Younis had been killed by members of the Obaida Ibn Jarrah Brigade, a militia named after one of the companions of the Prophet Muhammad, suggesting that Islamist elements were involved.

Tarhouni told reporters in Benghazi that a militia leader who had gone to fetch Younis from the frontline had been arrested and had confessed that his subordinates carried out the killing. "It was not him. His lieutenants did it," Tarhouni said, adding that the killers were still at large.

The NTC leader Mustafa Abdul Jalil said on Thursday that Younis had been recalled for questioning to Benghazi but was killed before he arrived. Relatives said they retrieved a burned and bullet-riddled body.

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jul/30/libya-general-younis-islamists-blamed

[daleo]

1. That's not too encouraging

What dragon's teeth are we busy sewing this time?

[Doctor_J]

2. Fox "News" said that about the Oslo killer too.

[saras]

3. This is the Guardian, not Faux - do you have a competing theory with better evidence?

[chrisa]

4. The monetary / weapons supporters of the Libyan rebels are funding the next 9/11.