Islamist fighters fired rockets into a second fuel tank near Tripoli airport, setting it on fire, ignoring calls for a ceasefire from the government as well as international envoys. The government called for international help to extinguish the massive blaze, which is out of control in the capital. Many embassies have closed in Tripoli due to insecurity. British Embassy staff evacuating Tripoli escaped an attempted carjacking yesterday. In Benghazi, fighting between Islamists and government forces allied with Operation Dignity continues; over the past few days, two senior Ansar al Sharia members, Idris Majbre and Ahmed Ali Mohammed Musbah Al Zahawi, brother of Ansar’s leader in Derna, Mohammed Al-Zahawi, were killed, and three brothers in the military police have disappeared. US court filings revealed that the Libyan government is paying the legal fees for the defense of senior al Qaeda operative Abu Anas al Libi.
