Bienfaits de l’intervention occidentale en faveur de la démocratie : les #milices.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/02/01/us-libya-tripoli-battle-idUSTRE81029420120201
Rival militias fought a two-hour gunbattle over a luxury beach house being used as a barracks in the Libyan capital Wednesday, underscoring how volatile the country is following the overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi.
A Reuters reporter heard exchanges of both heavy and light weapons coming from the Tripoli district of El-Saadi beach, a stretch of Mediterranean coast overlooked by office skyscrapers and the Marriott Hotel.
Militias have carved up Tripoli and the rest of Libya into competing fiefdoms, each holding out for the share of power they say they are owed.
A witness, who had been relaxing on the beach with his family, told a local television channel fighters armed with anti-aircraft guns screeched along the coastal highway and stormed a walled residence.
“It was chaos, the fighters suddenly arrived in cars and started shooting at the house. Families fled from the beach,” Abdul Musharim told the Libyan news channel ’Libya’.