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| Protesters storming the NTC’s Benghazi headquarters |
Libya leader says civil war possible if NTC quits
Ibrahim al-Majbari, AFP
Last updated: January 23, 2012
Libyan leader Mustafa Abdel Jalil said Sunday the nation would fall into a “civil war” if the ruling National Transitional Council resigned, as it faced its first major challenge.
Angry protests in the eastern city of Benghazi — the city which first rebelled against Kadhafi last year — have dealt a severe blow to the NTC’s functioning. It led its deputy head Abdel Hafiz Ghoga to resign on Sunday, three days after furious students had manhandled him.
“We are not going to resign because it would lead to civil war,” NTC head Abdel Jalil said in an interview on the Libya al-Hurra television station late Sunday as protests raged in Benghazi.
Abdel Jalil said some “hidden hands” were “pushing the demonstrators.”
“Who is pushing these sit-ins prompting protesters to invade the headquarters of the council with such savagery?,” the new Libya’s leader said, referring to the attack on NTC offices in Benghazi Saturday.
Crowds of protesters threw several home-made grenades at and stormed the NTC offices with iron rods and stones before setting the building’s front ablaze, witnesses and council members said.
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