Daughter of Libya's former spy chief Senussi kidnapped

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Source: BBC News

The daughter of Libya's former intelligence chief has been abducted after leaving a prison in Tripoli.

Justice Minister Salah al-Marghani said police had been escorting Anoud Abdullah al-Senussi from al-Rayoumi prison on Monday afternoon when they were ambushed by heavily armed gunmen.

The kidnappers opened fire on them before seizing Ms Senussi, he added.

Ms Senussi had just finished a 10-month prison sentence for entering Libya with a forged passport in October 2012.

Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-23938549

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1. Libyan police unit admits kidnapping ex-spy chief's daughter

Source: The Guardian

Libyan police unit admits kidnapping ex-spy chief's daughter

Chris Stephen in Tripoli
theguardian.com, Thursday 5 September 2013 12.23 BST

The chaos at the heart of the Libyan government was underlined on Thursday when it admitted its own security forces kidnapped the daughter of Muammar Gaddafi's former spy chief from police custody this week.

Anoud al-Senussi, 22, was snatched in an armed ambush on a convoy of Libya's judicial police escorting her to Tripoli airport.

Four days after the prime minister, Ali Zaidan, vowed to track down her abductors, his government's elite gendarmerie, the Supreme Security Committee, admitted it carried out the raid.

An SSC statement said Senussi, daughter of Abdullah al-Senussi, who is due to stand trial for war crimes this month, was taken "for her own protection".

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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/05/libyan-police-kidnap-senussi-daughter