Operation Dignity continued to clash with Islamist forces in Benghazi, which are trying to overrun Benina Air Base; a Saiqa special forces member and nine Ansar al Sharia fighters were killed in recent fighting, and prominent Algerian Islamist Mohammed Abu Azzah, a leading al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb figure, was reportedly killed on Aug. 23. Tripoli residents said that 80 people are missing and 280 homes of Zintanis have been looted and torched since Islamist Misratan brigades took over the airport, including the house of Prime Minister al Thinni and and Transport Minister Ahmed. Libya’s Muslim Brotherhood objected to the Parliament’s calling the Libya Dawn movement “terrorists.”
