By Libya Herald reporter:
Tripoli, 10 September 2015:
Providing yet further evidence that the skills used by the Qaddafi regime to avoid uncomfortable . . .[restrict]truths have not been lost on the powers that be in Tripoli, the spokesman of department of central security unit of the Tripoli Interior Ministry, Essam Nass, has claimed that yesterday’s car bomb outside the Hadba prison containing Saadi Qaddafi and other leading former regime figures was no such thing.
The Tripoli office of the Libyan news agency LANA quotes him saying that it was all down to a fuel leak which had ignited causing the explosion. The media, he suggested, should adhere to rules of accuracy when reporting stories.
Khaled Sharif, on the other hand, who runs the prison and is now viewed as the second most powerful man in Tripoli after Abdulhakim Belhaj, appears to have no need for doublespeak. The same LANA quotes him today saying it was a car bomb and that he was sure it had been the doing of supporters of the former regime. They would be found and dealt with, he warned. [/restrict]
