LIBYA: Prime Minister Ali Zeidan is greeted by ministers of his government and members of the country's General National Congress GNC on his return to his office after being detained by rebel gunmen

Record ID: 720958

  • Title: LIBYA: Prime Minister Ali Zeidan is greeted by ministers of his government and members of the country's General National Congress GNC on his return to his office after being detained by rebel gunmen
  • Date: 10th October 2013
  • Summary: LIBYA TRIPOLI, (OCTOBER 10, 2013) (REUTERS) SECURITY AND JOURNALIST OUTSIDE THE LIBYAN PRIME MINISTER'S OFFICE IN TRIPOLI CAMERAMAN FILMING MINISTERS AND JOURNALIST WAITING FOR LIBYAN PRIME MINISTER ALI ZEIDAN TO ARRIVE MINISTERS WAITING PRESIDENT OF LIBYA'S GENERAL NATIONAL CONGRESS (GNC), NOURI ABU SAHMAIN, ARRIVING CAMERAMAN FILMING ABU SAHMAIN ARRIVAL ZEIDAN ARRIVING / MINISTERS AND GNC MEMBERS WELCOMING HIM ZEIDAN, MINISTERS AND GNC MEMBERS SITTING IN MEETING ROOM ZEIDAN SPEAKING GNC MEMBERS LISTENING ZEIDAN SITTING NEXT TO ABU SAHMAIN PHOTOGRAPHERS TAKING PICTURES GNC MEMBERS SEATED MEETING IN PROGRESS
  • Embargoed: 25th October 2013 13:00
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  • Location: Libya
  • Country: Libya
  • Topics: Crime / Law Enforcement,Domestic Politics
  • Reuters ID: LVA3TJTZFPJ6H7IR066OACAQFRB8
  • Story Text: Ministers in Libya's government were on hand to greet Prime Minister Ali Zeidan when he returned to his Tripoli office on Thursday (October 10) just hours after being released by former rebel militiamen.
    Zeidan was freed unharmed after being held by men angry at the weekend capture by U.S. special forces of a Libyan al Qaeda suspect in Libya's capital.
    Guards at the Hotel where Zeidan was detained said no shots were fired nor were their any clashes during the incident while a Libyan official told the state news agency that the prime minister had been held at the Interior Ministry's anti-crime department.
    Zeidan's detention was short lived however and he was released soon after and returned to his office where he meet with ministers and members of the country's General National Congress (GNC).
    The militia, which had been hired by the government to provide security in Tripoli, said it "arrested" Ali Zeidan after U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry confirmed Libya's role in the weekend capture in the city of Abu Anas al-Liby.
    The group, known as the Operations Room of Libya's Revolutionaries, had been affiliated with the Interior Ministry which assigned them to provide security in the capital as part of a programme to reintegrate former fighters.
    U.S. special forces on Saturday (October 5) seized Nazih al-Ragye, known by his alias Abu Anas al-Liby - a Libyan suspected in the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. Liby is being held on a Navy ship in the Mediterranean Sea.
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