By Ashraf Abdul Wahab and Ahmed Elumami.
Tripoli/Benghazi, 17 October 2013:
A local army commander, Brigadier Hussein Hinshir, was murdered this morning, at . . .[restrict]around 8am. He was shot in the Sahil Bin Nasser area.
He was one of officers who organised the resistance to Qaddafi during the revolution and helped found the Derna Martyrs Battalion. He was also commander of the Nasser Madhkur battalion which protected the town during the liberation war.
The identity of the killers is unknown although one Facebook site claimed that they were Qaddafi supporters who had dressed up to look like Islamists.
With – according to its Congressman Abdulfatah Shalwi – no functioning local council or security directorate, Derna is viewed as one of the most dangerous places in the country. Just six days ago, the head of the National Forces Alliance party in the town, Safowan Al-Masourie, survived an assassination attempt. The previous day, a member of its Counter Crime Agency, Saad Abdulrazaq Al-Mansouri, was shot dead by unknown gunmen while he was driving to work.
Two days earlier, air-defence police officer Abdulaziz Mahmoud Iddresi survived an attempt to kill him when an explosive device attached to the underside of his car exploded in front of his house. He was not in the vehicle at the time.
Like Hinshir, Iddresi also played a prominent role in the revolution.
Last month, a prominent local Sufi cleric, Sheikh Mustafa Rajab Al-Mahjoubi, was shot outside his home in the town.
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