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Live News Greece Sends Warship to Libya to Evacuate Embassy, Nationals BREAKING NEWS
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Islamic Militias Enjoy US Embassy Libya August 31 2014
Wonder what Obama and Hillary think when they see this? Kinda humiliating...or are they glad? Thanks for watching!
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Footage Shows Militia at US Compound in Libya
An Islamist-allied militia group says it has "secured" a U.S. Embassy compound in Libya #39;s capital, more than a month after American personnel evacuated from the country over ongoing fighting....
By: Associated Press
Armed militiamen have seized control of most Libyan government ministries in the capital, Tripoli, the transitional government acknowledged early Monday, in the latest sign of a dramatic deterioration of Libyas trappings of statehood.
Energy-rich Libya has slipped ever deeper into chaos since the toppling of longtime dictator Moammar Kadafi in 2011. The armed groups that were allies in the fight to depose him have turned on one another, fighting for oil wealth and political control.
The government and the elected parliament last month decamped to the eastern city of Tobruk, near the Egyptian border, and Islamist-linked militias from the western city of Misrata hold sway in the capital, having driven out rival armed groups. Libya now has two competing parliaments, with each declaring the other illegitimate.
In the latest chaotic development in Tripoli, gunmen surrounded government offices, threatened ministers with assassination and prevented employees from entering their workplaces, the transitional administration said in its statement, adding that most of the ministries and institutions and commissions in Tripoli were now outside its control.
It called on the armed groups to leave voluntarily -- something that appears highly unlikely to happen. May Allah preserve Libya, the statement concluded.
Meanwhile, the Tobruk-based House of Representatives on Monday reappointed Abdullah Thinni as prime minister and asked him to form a new government. Thinni was originally named prime minister in March, but that was challenged by the Islamist-dominated General National Congress, the rival parliament that has refused to disband.
The American Embassy in Tripoli was evacuated more than a month ago due to heavy fighting in the capital, and on Sunday, online images surfaced of militiamen frolicking in a swimming pool in a residential annex of the embassy. The State Department said the embassy compound itself did not appear to have been breached, and an Islamist-affiliated militia declared that it was guarding the embassy premises.
Special correspondent Nabih Bulos contributed to this report from Irbil, Iraq.
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Gunmen seize government ministries as Libya spirals further into chaos