Towering flagpoles to mark anniversary of revolution
Feb 19 Nigel Ash

Towering flagpoles to mark anniversary of revolution

By Wil Crisp.Tripoli, 19 February 2013:Work has begun installing a pair of lofty new flagpoles in the middle of Tripoli’s Martyrs’ Square. The masts h...

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Feb 10 Michel Cousins

No letter bomb at post office

Tripoli: 10 January 2013:An Interior Ministry official has denied claims that a package containing  explosives was found at the Tripoli main Post Offi...

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Feb 2 Michel Cousins

Revolutionaries start training as judicial police

Tripoli, 2 February 2013:The first training course for former revolutionaries planning to become members of the judicial police starts tomorrow, Sunda...

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Jan 26 Michel Cousins

Applications to join police soar

Tripoli 26 January 2013:Some 26,000 members of the Supreme Security Committee (SSC) have now signed up to join the police force according to the Inter...

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Jan 17 Michel Cousins

SSC member murdered in suspected revenge attack

Tripoli, 17 January 2013:A member of Battalion 14 of Tripoli’s SSC support units was found murdered yesterday, Wednesday. He had been kidnapped the pr...

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Fireworks explosion in Tripoli
Dec 2 Michel Cousins

Fireworks explosion in Tripoli

Tripoli, 2 December:An explosion in a firework’s store in Tripoli’s Shara Rashid late on Saturday morning led to the street being closed and traffic g...

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Sep 9 Michel Cousins

Blast in Sebha

Tripoli, 9 September:A car blew up in Sebha early this morning outside the regional offices of the interior ministry. No one was injured although it i...

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Aug 25 George Grant

Three journalists arrested by SSC over Tripoli shrine desecration coverage

Tripoli, 25 August:Three journalists from the Al-Assema television station were detained by the Supreme Security Committee this afternoon in relation...

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May 30 Michel Cousins

Rixos manager arrested, then released amid food poisoning claims

Tripoli, 29 May:The manager of Tripoli’s Rixos hotel, ?ükrü Koçak, was arrested on Tuesday amid allegations of food poisoning at the hotel.  He was la...

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Government forces clear Tripoli drug dens in night-time raids
May 25 George Grant

Government forces clear Tripoli drug dens in night-time raids

By George Grant and Ashraf Abdul-WahabTripoli, 25 May:A series of nighttime raids took place on drug dens in the Abu Salim and Al-Huadba districts of...

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