The "liberated from a dictator" Libya

You wanna know what's going on in Libya while we are busy looking at Mali and Algeria?

From France24:
 ...  Italy temporarily closed its consulate in Benghazi on Tuesday and pulled its staff out of the country following a failed gun attack on the consul in eastern Libya,
the foreign ministry said."The Italian government has temporarily suspended activity at the consulate in Benghazi for security reasons. The staff will return to Italy in the next few hours," the ministry said in a statement.

From AlArabiyaEnglish:
The Libyan authorities declared Thursday a curfew on the restive eastern city of Benghazi from midnight to 8 in the morning, Al Arabiya television reported.
Earlier, Prime Minister Ali Zeidan told reporters in Tripoli that “We envision taking security measures in coordination with the General National Congress... that could include a curfew if we consider it necessary.”
He added that the “army and police will be deployed in the streets and that draconian measures will be taken to maintain security.”
In the latest violence to hit the cradle of the 2011 revolt that ousted dictator Muammar Qaddafi, a car bomb killed a police officer in Benghazi on Tuesday....



From Reuters:
Muammar Gaddafi's son Saif al-Islam    appeared in a court on Thursday for the first time since his capture more than a year ago, Libya's public prosecutor's office said.
The son of the former Libyan leader was in court in the western town of Zintan, where he is being held by former rebels, to face charges related to a visit by an International Criminal Court (ICC) lawyer last year.
"He is charged with involvement with the ICC delegation which is accused of carrying papers and other things related to the security of the Libyan state," Taha Baara, spokesman for the prosecutor, told Reuters.
The ICC lawyer, Australian Melinda Taylor, was herself arrested and held for three weeks after the meeting and has since said her detention proved that Saif al-Islam could not receive a fair trial for war crimes and instead should be tried in The Hague.
Another ICC defense lawyer said the court hearing in Zintan - part of Libya where the Tripoli authorities have little sway - was designed to intimidate the international court.......

From Twitter:

Under Gaddafi, al-Qaeda groups could only operate in #Libya as hidden cells; today they openly have training camps in Derna + Fezzan.
— Dai Rhys (@Didz1234) January 17, 2013

"Revenge is mine" say the new dictators in Libya ... even if it means $200 M to get one Gadhafi supporter.
From Reuters:
Libya authorized payment of almost $200 million  to Mauritania months after it extradited the Libyan ex-spy chief to face trial at home in defiance of an International Criminal Court warrant for his arrest, Libyan government documents show.
Abdullah al-Senussi is wanted by the ICC on suspicion of orchestrating brutal reprisals during the 2011 uprising that led to the fall and death of Muammar Gaddafi, who ruled the North African country with an iron fist for 42 years.
A lawyer for Senussi told Reuters he believed the $200 million payment, equivalent to about 5 percent of Mauritania's gross domestic product, was designed to secure Senussi's repatriation after he fled to Mauritania in March last year.
The payment was shown in government documents seen by Reuters, and Libyan officials said it was made as aid for Mauritania, a poor West African country with which Tripoli has had important investment ties....