A new Islamic group, the “Muslim youth council of Shurah,” said it is sending troops to Derna to establish peace and impose sharia law. Benghazi closed down in a general strike to protest the government’s failure to address insecurity in the city, where hundreds of security force members were individually assassinated over the past year. A security official in Sebha was shot dead, purportedly by accident. Three bodies found near Ghat are thought to be those of soldiers kidnapped last year. The Morning Glory, which illegally loaded oil last month, unloaded its 230,000 barrels of oil at the Zawia refinery.
