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Published time: October 31, 2012 02:52
Edited time: October 31, 2012 06:52
Members of the National Congress of the year during the performance of the constitutional right during the transfer of authority ceremony in tripoli on August 8, 2012 (AFP Photo / Mahmud Turkia)

Protesters have stormed Libya's parliament forcing it to postpone a vote on a new Cabinet. The incident highlights the ongoing struggle new leaders face to bring the country under full control.

­About 100 civilians and self-proclaimed rebels broke in the building of the National General Congress on Tuesday facing little resistance, AP reports.

The men left the hall after Interim President Mohammed al-Megarif talked to them, but then returned again. The protesters, who took issue with the ministers nominated, forced the new Prime Minister Ali Zidan, to postpone the vote.  Among other complaints was that some nominees had links to the deposed regime of Muammar Gaddafi.

Al-Megarif complained that the lawmakers are being pressured. “Let Libyans know the atmosphere in which we operate,'' the interim president said. “The least we can say about what happened is that it is pressure on the Congress members.”  

The 200-member National General Congress was elected by popular elections in July and replaced the National Transitional Council a month later as the country’s ruling body. But as well as the former NTC the new legislative authority still struggles to reign in numerous armed groups and militias in a country thwart by tribal and sectarian rifts that followed the last year’s civil war.

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Peter Jennings (unregistered) 31.10.2012 14:30

There was no civil war in Libya. There were assasinations, there were war crimes, there was invasion by foreign countries, there were paid mercenaries, but there was no civil war.

There was no humanitarian aid either.

What there was, was money, gold, water, oil, rebuilding contracts and waging aggressive war on a peaceful nation with a forward thinking leader.

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traveling lighthouse 31.10.2012 09:17

Since i live far away from Libya i don't know what is going on in that country from my own experience. But to read just these few lines from RT News immediately raises questions inside myself like:

How is it possible that about 100 "rebels" are able to storm  the parliament "facing little resistance"?

AP states: "Among other complaints was that some nominees had links to the deposed regime of Muammar Gaddafi"

Most likely for me there is some power at work who wants to eliminate all remnants of the old regime. It goes along with the siege of Bani Walid which is specified as "tribal conflict" by most media...

Do you believe that?

And by the way: the expression "civil war" is a contradiction in itself for my understanding of civilized men solve conflicts nonviolent.

M ay the people of Libya and all other regions which are shattered by war find peace and a life of abundance and joy!

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jro nimmo (unregistered) 31.10.2012 09:12

i agree with you johnny. i think its rather strange if RT picks up the mainstream bromide's of civil war on the libyan episode. it's invasion plain and blatant by the nato-rat gangsters as you said! come on RT and also  mr. putin and mr. lavrov for that matter be firm and consistent, don't play into the hands of the globalist-zionist bloody charades, not even an iota. beware of the incorrigible opportunistic, janus-faced  zionist-nato-banker- global-military-indu strial complex and their arabian and turkish proxies!

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