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Deadly Libya Bombing May Be War Crime

Heather Murdock

   TRIPOLI, LIBYA - The bombing in Libya's capital that killed at least 44
   people, with some reports saying as many as 55, and injured more than
   130 on Tuesday night may amount to a war crime, according to a United
   Nations envoy in Tripoli.

   Outside the suburban Tripoli detention center early Wednesday,
   survivors watched investigators pick through the rubble after a long
   night outside with barely any food and water.

   "We just want peace," said one Somali woman, taking cover under a tree
   as investigators searched for bodies well into the afternoon. "We went
   from Somalia to Yemen, then to Sudan and then came here. This is just
   like Somalia."

   At the morgue in the Libyan capital, bodies were wrapped and prepared
   for forensic examination while injured people in the hospital were
   treated, some barely conscious.

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