Four US military personnel traveling in two SUVs were detained at a checkpoint near Sabratha, west Tripoli, and then moved to the Ministry of the Interior before they were released. One of the SUVs was reportedly set on fire. In Benghazi, a lieutenant colonel was kidnapped and an army guard was attacked yesterday, and a senior military officer was shot dead on Dec. 26. A Palestinian who was shot in Benghazi is being held under armed guard at the hospital. Over 40 prisoners escaped in a mass jailbreak in Ajdabiya; four were recaptured. The Sebha local council went on strike after gunmen attacked its offices and a grenade was thrown at a newspaper office. Protesters briefly blocked the entrances to the port of Tripoli and the Central Bank of Libya yesterday. The Libyan Muslim Brotherhood criticized Egypt’s decision to designate the Muslim Brotherhood there a terrorist organization.
