alkhabar
Maghreb
Genral Mohamed Hadia al-Feitouri
The slain general’s son, Ahmad Hadia said that his father “was returning home from the mosque with a neighbour after Friday prayers when a car with four people on board stopped in front of them. "They asked for his identity, then shot him dead." The motive for the murder was not immediately clear and the identity of the gunmen unknown, the Tripoli Post reported.
Hadia was one of the first officers to defect the former regime and join the opposition during last year's revolution that ousted Muammar Gaddafi from power after more than four decades of iron-fist rule.
After the revolution he was appointed head of armaments at the defence ministry.
He is the latest of dozens of security officials murdered in Benghazi, especially officers who had served the brutal dictator Gaddafi and were the tools of oppression.These officials included Omar Brebesh, a career diplomat who was cultural attache and then ambassador to France between 2004 to 2008 He was brought in for routine questioning in Tripoli over his work for the former regime.His body truned up in a Zintan hospital, it had marks of torture. There was also the case of Judge Jumah Hasan al-Jazwi who was shoton his way to pray at a mosque in June.He was investigating last year's murder of Gen Abdel Fattah Younes, who had defected from Col Gaddafi's regime.
The killing of General Hadia comes a day after Libya's new interim assembly assumed power, and brings to the fore the security challenge to the newly elected National Congress and its President Mohammed Yussef Magarif who was chosen for the post Thursday night. He is no stranger to targetted killing having survived three assassination attempts by Gaddafi's men.
Libya has to stop the revenge killings and disputes between militias and tribes.Genuine reconciliation has yet to be achieved.
Hadia was one of the first officers to defect the former regime and join the opposition during last year's revolution that ousted Muammar Gaddafi from power after more than four decades of iron-fist rule.
After the revolution he was appointed head of armaments at the defence ministry.
He is the latest of dozens of security officials murdered in Benghazi, especially officers who had served the brutal dictator Gaddafi and were the tools of oppression.These officials included Omar Brebesh, a career diplomat who was cultural attache and then ambassador to France between 2004 to 2008 He was brought in for routine questioning in Tripoli over his work for the former regime.His body truned up in a Zintan hospital, it had marks of torture. There was also the case of Judge Jumah Hasan al-Jazwi who was shoton his way to pray at a mosque in June.He was investigating last year's murder of Gen Abdel Fattah Younes, who had defected from Col Gaddafi's regime.
The killing of General Hadia comes a day after Libya's new interim assembly assumed power, and brings to the fore the security challenge to the newly elected National Congress and its President Mohammed Yussef Magarif who was chosen for the post Thursday night. He is no stranger to targetted killing having survived three assassination attempts by Gaddafi's men.
Libya has to stop the revenge killings and disputes between militias and tribes.Genuine reconciliation has yet to be achieved.
