Heavy gunfire heard in Libya's capital Tripoli

Reuters ^ | 11/4/13 | Reuters

[Chad_the_Impaler]

Heavy shooting from guns and anti-aircraft weapons could be heard early on Tuesday in the Libyan capital Tripoli, Reuters witnesses said.

[MestaMachine]

GMTA

[TigersEye]

Possibly related...

East Libya declares self-government

[okie01]

<Libya is disentigrating. The central government doesn't even control Tripoli; oil production has ceased and the eastern half of the country just declared autonomy.

So much for "Arab Spring", universally praised as the most successful Obama/Clinton foreign policy initiative...

[Pan_Yan]

Who’s doing air attacks?

There were a ton of pictures during the 'revolution' of anti-aircraft guns mounted on the back of rusty Toyota pickups. They shot them at everything. If someone actually hit an aircraft is was pure chance.

[epluribus_2]

especially in places like Libya where some radicals are muslimer than other muslims...

[null and void]

Yep. If islam ever succeeds in taking over the world they will then start killing each other for not being muslim enough.

When the population is reduced to two, Achmed will slaughter Ishmael for that very reason.

Unless Ishmael kills him first, for exactly the same reason.

[Billthedrill]

Yeah, but think how much worse it would have been if 0bama hadn't brought peace to the region.

Next time some dumbass like Rob Reiner bleats that Hillary is "experienced" consider just what we and the people of Libya are paying for that experience. Libya was on her watch as Secretary of State. If the Libyans wanted her as the U.S. President just to punish us after 0bama gets through with us, I'd understand.

[EERinOK]

or maybe it’s just someone’s wedding, or your average run of the mill middle east Monday afternoon death to America pep rally

[danamco]

And it ALL originated from his Cairo Speech!!!

[Eagle of Liberty]

This may be why:

Tension in Tripoli after warrant for pro-Assad Eid

TRIPOLI, Lebanon: Tension gripped Tripoli Tuesday after a search warrant was issued against Arab Democratic Party Secretary-General Ali Eid, as the caretaker prime minister said his Cabinet could look into the possibility of disbanding the pro-Syrian regime party.

Dozens of men gathered Tuesday morning at the entrance of Jabal Mohsen, the headquarters of the ADP, to protest Judge Saqr Saqr’s order for a search warrant, which tasks authorities with searching for and arresting Eid on site.

Eid is at large and is reportedly staying at Hikr Daher, a northern village at the border with Syria.

The ADP had filed a request to the north Lebanon Governor Nassif Qaloush to hold a “march against violence and fighting” at 11 a.m. Friday. It also requested police escort during the rally which will kick off from Jabal Mohsen until Nour Square in Tripoli.

The request was signed by the ADP, the Alawite Islamic Council and the civil society in Jabal Mohsen.

The demonstration call by the ADP supporters angered residents from the rival Bab al-Tabbaneh, a mainly Sunni neighborhood, prompting them to call for a counter rally at the Rashid Karami International complex in Tripoli on Sunday to demand the dissolution of the ADP.

The search warrant issued by Military Prosecutor Judge Saqr Saqr came a week after Eid, a fervent supporter of Syrian President Bashar Assad who has the support of his Alawite community, defied a summons over recent deadly car bombings that rocked the northern city.