Friday, July 22, 2011

6 guards killed in an airstrike Brega Friday. Shwehdi says major setback in giant irrigation project

Tel4rent
 says six killed in airstrike near Brega: TRIPOLI (Reuters) - A Libyan official said six... 
TRIPOLI (Reuters) - A Libyan official said six guards were killed in an airstrike on Friday on a pipeline production plant just south of Brega in eastern Libya."This will be a major setback to future projects and a great problem to the maintenance activity," Abdul Hakim el-Shwehdi, managing director of Libya's state al-Nahr company which runs the country's giant irrigation project, told reporters in Tripoli. (Reporting by Missy Ryan; Writing by Giles Elgoodl editing by Tim Pearce)