Tuesday, August 2, 2011

After the assassination of a controversial military commander, are Libya's rebels cracking up?


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t didn't take the prescient gifts of Nostradamus to foresee that Thursday's killing of Abdel Fattah Younes  --commander of Libya's anti-Gaddafi rebel forces--would exacerbate the tensions and divisions already rife within the opposition's leadership. But it is a little surprising just how swiftly the suspicions of treason and double-dealing unleashed by the Younes assassination have spurred the Benghazi-based rebel government into action threatening to split the opposition into warring rival factions focused more on battling one another than Gaddafi.
Read more: http://globalspin.blogs.time.com/2011/08/01/weekend-violence-increases-fears-of-libyas-opposition-splitting-apart/#ixzz1Tv0LS5Am