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Libyan Interior Minister “I Will Not Stop Islamist Violence”

Posted by seumasach on September 2, 2012

Front Page Mag

1st September, 2012

After a completely meaningless resignation, Libya’s Interior Minister has finally come clean and is saying that the police will not in any way interfere with Islamist violence. Most newspapers are not carrying his full remarks and their real implications.

Interior minister Fawzi Abdel A’al initially offered his resignation on Saturday after he was criticized for not doing enough to stop the Tripoli assault, which took place in broad daylight in the center of the city as security forces looked on.

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