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Libyan Man Who Caught Gadhafi is Murdered
By Delords - Wednesday, September 26, 2012
One of the young
Libyan rebels credited with capturing Moammar Gadhafi in a drainage
ditch nearly a year ago died Tuesday of injuries after being kidnapped,
beaten and slashed by the late dictator's supporters — the latest victim
of persistent violence and instability in the North African country.
The death of Omran Shaaban, who had been hospitalized in France, raised the prospect of even more violence and score-settling, with the newly elected National Congress
authorizing police and the army to use force if necessary to apprehend
those who abducted the 22-year-old and three companions in July near the
town of Bani Walid.
Shaaban was praised as a "dutiful
martyr" by the National Congress, although his family says he never
received a promised reward of 1 million Libyan dinars ($800,000) for
capturing Gadhafi on Oct. 20, 2011, in the former leader's hometown of
Sirte. The eccentric dictator was killed later that day by revolutionary
fighters.
The Libyan government said it would honor Shaaban with a funeral befitting a hero. His body was greeted at the airport in his hometown of Misrata by more than 10,000 people for a procession to a soccer stadium for funeral prayers.
Photos
on social media websites showed a wooden coffin with a glass window
that revealed Shaaban's face, with white gauze covering his head.
In
the capital of Tripoli, several hundred protesters gathered outside the
headquarters of the National Congress to demand that the government
avenge Shaaban's death.
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