By Ahmed Elumami.
Tripoli, 21 October 2013:
The Prime Minister has been asked by Zawia Local Council to withdraw parts of his statement . . .[restrict]yesterday in which he said that “some Zawia armed men” took a part in his abduction.
“Ali Zeidan has no right to accuse anyone from Zawia before the investigation [into his kidnapping] has begun,” Zawia Local Council head Mohamed Khathrawi told the Libya Herald today. “Zeidan should wait for the results of the enquiry. Then he can declare anything he wants.”
Zawia had a great reputation, Khathrawi said, and its people had played a major role in liberating Libya. What was being alleged damaged that reputation.
In any event, it would have ben impossible for a brigade from Zawia to have participated in Zeidan’s abduction, he stated. Moreover, he added, individual actions did not represent the whole city.
Khathrawi also revealed that the council had yesterday met with the two of the town’s congressmen accused by the Prime Minister of being involved in his kidnapping – Mohamed Kilani and Mustafa Treiki.
“We asked them a direct question: Were you involved in what happened with Zeidan? Kilani and Treiki said no,” Khathrawi explained. [/restrict]
