Ex-Intel Chief To Gaddafi Wounded, Raising More Questions About Handling Of Detainees -- Washington Post
The former intelligence chief to Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi was seriously injured Tuesday while in the custody of the National Transitional Council, fueling concerns about the treatment of loyalists to the deposed government.
The cause of Abuzed Omar Dorda’s injuries are disputed, but a relative of Dorda, a one-time U.N. envoy, has appealed to U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and the Security Council president to intercede with Libyan authorities to protect the former official, saying he had been the target of an assassination attempt by his jailers. The U.N.’s special representative to Libya, Ian Martin, has instructed his staff to look into the claim.
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My Comment: While he was only thrown out of a second floor window (not a third floor or higher) .... he is clearly a marked man. It appears that retribution and revenge is now the order of the day .... and the new Libyan governments announcement that they are now going to put Gaddafi's killers on trial is clearly an attempt to stop these acts of revenge .... but (for now) I doubt that it is going to work.
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