A senior assistant to Prime Minister Zeidan was kidnapped at a checkpoint outside Tripoli. Zeidan condemned an attack on the Justice Ministry, blamed the attack on the Tamarhind military airbase on cross-border smugglers, and dismissed reports of "large convoys" of smugglers. Unknown attackers bombed the courthouse in Derna; the judiciary suspended work there in December citing security concerns.
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