Wanna know how NATO's "force-fed democracy" is doing in Libya?

From Reuters:
A top security official   in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi was killed in front of his home overnight on Wednesday, security officials said, in the latest violence to plague the cradle of the North African country's revolt.
Faraj al-Deirsy, head of Benghazi police, died from multiple gunshot wounds, police and interior ministry sources said.
"This happened in front of his house when unknown attackers opened fire and hit him before fleeing," a police source.
An interior ministry official confirmed that Deirsy, in charge of security in Benghazi, had been killed in front his home.
Libya has been hit by persistent instability since the overthrow of Muammer Gaddafi last year. Authorities are still trying to disarm numerous groups, mostly militias who took part in the uprising, who refuse to lay down their weapons.

From AP via Google
 A Libyan military court    on Wednesday ordered prosecutors to interrogate former transitional leader Mustafa Abdel Jalil over the murder of a general who had commanded rebel forces last year.
The court in the eastern city of Benghazi ordered that the ex-chairman of the National Transitional Council, a political body representing rebels in the 2011 conflict, be questioned over the killing of General Abdel Fatah Yunes.
Yunes, the highest-ranking military personality to join the 2011 uprising against Moamer Kadhafi's regime, was killed in July 2011 in murky circumstances after being recalled from the front line for questioning.
Wednesday's hearing was adjourned until February 20, 2013 because the prosecutor general has yet to question some of those suspected of involvement in his death, the court noted.
After the hearing, members of the Al-Obeidi tribe to which the general belonged warned they would take justice into their own hands if Libya's new authorities continue to "neglect" the case.



 The site of a Sunday morning car bomb   attack near a police station in Libya's eastern city of Benghazi. Three police officers were wounded in the latest of a string of attacks on security personnel, though officials at the scene said there were no deaths. One police witness said the explosion was caused by a home-made bomb attached to the bottom of a parked police car. The Libyan government is struggling to control a rising tide of attacks by area militias. Benghazi has been hit by several bombings and other attacks this year

From AfricanQuarters
Protests outside western Libya's  main oil refinery shut down operations for a second day on Monday, causing long queues at petrol stations in the capital Tripoli, a refinery spokesman said.
Essam al-Muntasir of the Zawiya Oil Refining Company said many wounded veterans of the war which ousted Muammar Gaddafi last year were demonstrating in front of the refinery.
"They are not allowing the employees to enter the company and not allowing our tankers to leave," he told Reuters. "They say they haven't received adequate compensation and feel the government hasn't given them their full rights." He would not say if the protesters were armed....

The vid below is very interesting. I found it  at a Libyan blog and the blogger seems to infer that there was an accident after a bank robbery and the notes scattered over the desert floor....however, notice how the cavemen at the scene are not scampering all around for the money.  When the guy making the video sees someone picking up some of the notes, he says "haram".  The word "haram" has a myriad of meanings.  It can mean bad or sinful or rotten or even counterfeit. Was the money counterfeit and what kind of "accident" overturned the vehicle  carrying the sackfuls  of money?  Intriguing.


From the lefty Dailykos
The failure to form  what could be considered a proper government in the "monopoly of violence" sense, has been the complaint raised most often about the Libyan Revolution in the year that has passed since the murder of Mummar Qaddafi. This criticism had a lot of currency.
We hear that the country is awash with weapons and ruled by armed militias. The central government, as represented by the National Transitional Council, was weak, unrepresentative, plagued by divisions and lacking in sufficient respect among the people. The national police force and national army were also newly formed, weak and lacking in firepower as compared to some of the better armed revolutionary brigades and militias.
The most learn of the critics were quick to point out that the revolutionary Libyan government did not yet fulfill that most fundamental requirement in the definition of a state. It did not yet possess a monopoly of violence within its territory.
And Bani Walid was the proof....

From LibyaHerald
Abdel Basset Abu Naama,   a former revolutionary and National Transitional Council (NTC) representative for the town of Tarhouna, was discovered dead in a locked vehicle on Monday. Abu Naama had been abducted on Sunday by armed men, tortured and died from a fatal gunshot to the head.
Security officials have not provided a timeframe for the events that led to his death and have no leads on the perpetrators. However it is believed the killing was related to rivalry among families in the town. This is what was alleged by a relative of the deceased, Abdul Hakim Abu Naama, in a statement made to Ajwaa Leblad News. The relative  also revealed  the victim was concerned with the lack of stability in Tarhouna and feared for the security of his family, so much so that he had relocated them to Tripoli.
Libya’s weak police force is unable to provide explanations for such fatalities, as they lack the manpower and expertise to conduct murder investigations. Security forces are up against armed militias, an uneasy task exacerbated by limited resources.