By Hadi Fornaji
Tripoli, 6 July 2013:
There was tension around Ghariyan in the early hours of this morning with Zintani fighters said . . .[restrict]to be on the city boundaries and some reports of actual fighting with units from Ghariyan.
It appears that early last night Ghariyan forces intercepted a Zintani convoy of 13 vehicles on a back road, to the north-west of the town. The vehicles were said to be carrying arms and on their way to Tripoli. The Ghariyanis seized the convoy and an unknown number of those travelling in it.
It is understood that a few hours later a force set out from Zintan to retrieve the vehicles and their contents. There are also overnight reports that some Ghariyanis in Tripoli have been seized by an unidentified Zintani-connected militia in the capital.
It was only five days ago that the Ghariyan Revolutionaries formally handed over control of the city’s Khalifa Al Tekbai camp to the army, placing themselves under the direct control of the Tripoli Military Area Command . The handover ceremony was one of the first official events to be attended by the new president of the GNC, Nuri Abu Sahmain. [/restrict]
