Younis murder avenged...... Libya update of note !

http://www.libyaherald.com/benghazi-official-linked-to-younis-killing-assassinated/

Benghazi official linked to Younis killing assassinated

Tripoli, 21 June:

Jumaa Obaidi Al-Jazawi, the former military prosecutor who ordered the arrest of assassinated former Chief of Staff, Major-General Abdel-Fattah Younis, was himself assassinated in Benghazi this evening. He was shot as he was leaving the Ahmed Sharif Mosque in the city’s Bu Hadaima district after Asr prayers.  He was shot in the heart and died instantly.

Younis was assassinated with two of his colleagues on 28 July last year after being summoned by the NTC from Brega to Benghazi for questioning.

According to a statement by the Supreme Security Committee in Benghazi, Jazawi, who was the chief of Martyrs Association in Libya, was shot in his right side of chest. The bullet came out on the left.

There were at least two previous attempts to kill him. In January, a bomb was placed under his car. Early in March, he was shot in the arm by gunmen as he was leaving his home. At the time of the March attack, however, his oldest son, Ali, said Jazawi had survived two earlier assassination attempts.

Jazawi’s brother, Rajab, also reportedly survived an assassination attempt after his name was listed amongst suspects accused of killing Younis.

Jazawi worked under Ali Essawi, who served as interim deputy prime minister until he and a number of other ministers were sacked last August. Al-Jawzi was allegedly ordered by Essawi to arrest general Younis. Essawi denied any involvement.

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Australian FM Says ICC Close to Apologising to Libya Over Melissa Taylor 20/06/2012 17:27:00

The International Criminal Court is close to making an apology in the Melinda Taylor case and Libya is eager to release the Australian lawyer and her three colleagues, Foreign Affairs Minister Bob Carr has been reported saying Senator Carr has been reported saying by SMH, that he now believes the four-member staff from the ICC could be freed within a week and a half or sooner if he is able to "telescope" negotiations between Libyan authorities and the International Court. Melinda Taylor, an Australian defence counsel with the court, has been held in the north-western city of Zintan for the past fortnight after being accused of passing coded messages to her client, Muammar Gaddafi's son, Seif al-Islam. Mr Carr said in an interview with Fairfax Media by phone from the Moroccan capital Rabat, where he is holding talks with the government, that he plans to insist in talks that Libyan authorities allow the 36-year-old to phone loved ones in Australia. “I'm saying to the Libyan government today, enough's enough; it's time to allow telephone contact between Melinda Taylor and her family,” he said. A few days ago the Senator made a six-hour visit to Libya during which he pressed Prime Minister Abdurrahim el-Keeb to release Ms Taylor. He also spoke with the President of the International Criminal Court, Sang-Hyun Song, adding that the ICC chief “was moving towards a form of words that in my view would satisfy the Libyans." Mr Carr also said that he has spoken with the Libyan authorities on Tuesday and they confirmed their willingness, indeed their eagerness to release the detainees subject to that form of words.

He added that he was confident Melinda Taylor and her colleagues would be released and has even put a timeframe on when it might happen. “I want to telescope a process that has probably got another week or week and a half left in it, providing both sides move on track. I want to telescope that process and have it happen faster but, both sides have got to be persuaded to do that.”