"At least five people were wounded Sunday when
rival Libyan militias clashed with heavy weapons in Tripoli, according
to Libyan officials, highlighting the dangers posed by thousands of
armed men who refuse to yield to the new government’s control.
Also on Sunday, in another sign of Libya’s
persistent insecurity, a car bomb exploded outside a police station in
the eastern city of Benghazi, wounding at least three police officers,
Reuters reported.
The fighting in Tripoli, the Libyan capital, was the latest in a string
of violent episodes that are contributing to a growing sense of
lawlessness and stoking fears that Libya’s fledgling government is
incapable of securing the country more than a year after its former
leader, Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, was killed."
