Gaddafi loyalist accused of plotting to assassinate Libyan rebel leader

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Source: The Guardian

A Libyan student leader loyal to Colonel Muammar Gaddafi has been arrested in Italy, accused of planning to assassinate the Libyan rebels' leading international representative and lead an attack on Libya's embassy in Rome.

Court documents released after the arrests of three men identified the intended victim of the plot as Abdel Rahman Shalgam, a former foreign minister who headed the Transitional National Council's delegation to this week's meeting of the Libyan contact group in Abu Dhabi.

Shalgam, who was Gaddafi's foreign minister from 2000 until 2009 and subsequently his ambassador to the UN, defected to the rebels on 25 February.

The alleged mastermind of the plot to kill him is Nuri Ahusain, the head of the Libyan students' union in Italy, who was arrested at his home in Perugia by anti-terrorist police on Thursday.

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jun/10/gaddafi-loyalist-accused-libyan-rebel-leader

[Dokkie]

1. Surpise surpise

Gaddafi is trying to assassinate the leader of a rebel group trying to destroy his country and most likely kill him when he has finished with the country. Why no the guardian report some real news instead of the obvious.

[UnrepentantLiberal]

3. And here I thought it was Gaddafi shelling cities. How silly of me.

Go rebels!

[ButterflyBlood]

5. Destroy his country?

I think the guy shelling civilian areas and gunning down protesters fits that description better than those who rise against him.

[mazzarro]

2. This is crappiest piece of sh*t called news

So NATO bombing Ghaddafi's compound is not assassination attempts and the rebels themselves are not plotting Ghaddafi's demise? Jeez - what type of stupidity has befallen the so called journalist or have all of them become propaganda horns of the power-that-be and big corporations?

[ButterflyBlood]

4. The should airdrop this guy into Benghazi

and then forget about him. That'll solve a problem.