(Agence France-Presse) Gunmen seized Prime Minister Ali Zeidan from a Tripoli hotel early Thursday, October 10, in the latest sign of the lawlessness sweeping Libya since dictator Moammar Gaddafi was toppled in 2011.
The pre-dawn abduction comes five days after US commandos embarrassed and angered Libya’s government by capturing senior Al-Qaeda suspect Abu Anas al-Libi off the streets of Tripoli and whisking him away to a warship.
“The head of the transitional government, Ali Zeidan, was taken to an unknown destination for unknown reasons by a group” of men believed to be former rebels, the government said in a brief statement on its website.
