nearly two years after the Gaddafis fled Tripoli, the country is racked by spiraling violence and in some parts an all-out insurgency. The government in Tripoli has only a tenuous hold over huge swaths of the country, where armed brigades impose their own law and order, wage battle against challengers, and imprison hundreds of suspected Gaddafi loyalists and other foes. Just in recent days, armed groups assassinated a military intelligence colonel in Benghazi, exploded three car bombs in Sebha, and fought pitched battles in the Tripoli neighborhood of Abu Selim. Armed groups earlier this month assassinated a high-level judge in the eastern city of Derna, and in Tripoli, laid siege to government ministries and to the Petroleum Facilities Guard, which is charged with securing Libya’s crucial oil fields. “We have been told by the government officials that they will rein in the brigades,” Sadat Elbadri, who heads the Tripoli Local Council, told the Libya Herald on Thursday. “I hope it is done this time.”
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