Commonwealth War Cemetery vandalised in Benghazi

Islamist groups in Benghazi have mounted a series of attacks on Western
targets in recent weeks, raising fears of their mounting influence in the
city from where the rebellion that toppled Col Muammar Gaddafi last year
first began.

Militants fired rocket-propelled grenades at a convoy carrying Britain’s
ambassador to Libya, Sir Dominic Asquith, into the city, wounding two of his
guards. The US mission in Benghazi was attacked this month, while senior UN
and Red Cross officials have also narrowly escaped attempts to ambush them.

More than 8,000 allied dead from Montgomery’s Western Desert Campaign during
the Second World War are buried in Libya, and could prove tempting targets
for other Islamists.

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