A mortar launched from a car toward the Corinthia hotel in Tripoli missed its target, hitting an elderly couple’s flat instead. Security guards thwarted an attempt to bomb Benghazi Medical College on July 21. That same day, a retired army colonel was assassinated in Derna. The commander of the Benghazi search and rescue team was kidnapped and murdered a few days earlier. The head of Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood is said to have fled to Libya. Congress recently authorized the commission that will draft a new democratic constitution.
