Witnesses: Commander killed by fellow Libya rebels

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BENGHAZI, Libya (AP) -- The Libyan rebels' military commander was killed by his comrades while in custody after he was arrested by the opposition's leadership on suspicion of treason, witnesses said Friday, in a sign of disarray that posed a major setback for the movement battling Moammar Gadhafi.

The slaying of Abdel-Fattah Younis raised fear and uncertainty in Benghazi, the de facto rebel capital. Thousands marched behind his coffin, wrapped in the rebels' tricolor flag, to the graveyard for his burial, chanting that he was a martyr "beloved by God." Troops fired a military salute as the coffin arrived, and angry and grieving supporters fired wildly into the air with automatic weapons.

At the graveside, Younis' son, Ashraf, broke down, crying and screaming as they lowered the body into the ground and - in a startling and risky display in a city that was the first to shed Gadhafi's rule nearly six months ago - pleaded hysterically for the return of the Libyan leader to bring stability.

"We want Moammar to come back! We want the green flag back!" he shouted at the crowd, referring to Gadhafi's national banner.

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1. Abdel Fatah Younis assassination creates division among Libya rebels

One more clusterfuck!!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jul/29/abdel-fatah-younis-death-libya
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The fractious coalition fighting to oust Muammar Gaddafi was plunged into disarray on Friday as the mysterious death of the rebels' army commander sparked anger from his powerful tribe and distrust among those loyal to the cause.

The assassination of Abdel Fatah Younis, one of Gaddafi's former right-hand men and a high-profile defector to the rebels, was announced at a late-night press conference on Thursday by Mustafa Abdul Jalil, president of the ruling National Transitional Council. But yesterday Jalil, who said only that Younis had been killed on his way back to Benghazi where he had been "summoned" for questioning, failed to explain the circumstances of the death.

As hundreds of mourners descended on the streets of Benghazi for the funeral procession, the opposition capital was tense, with reports of heavy gunfire in the early hours. As he followed Younis's coffin through the city, the commander's nephew Abdul Hakim told Reuters: "We got the body yesterday here , he had been shot with bullets and burned."

In Brussels, Nato officials stressed that they were not fully in the picture on the circumstances of the murder, and that the military alliance did not want to be seen to be speaking for the opposition to Gaddafi. But they delivered a warning to the NTC, suggesting Nato was confident the opposition was to blame.

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"We want Moammar to come back! We want the green flag back!" coming from Younis' son in Benghazi.

Civil war within the civil war coming?

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4. wasn't that in "Psychological Operations in Guerrilla Warfare," back when the Contras were Spansh-

speaking?