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Libya's FM: Drone Strike Could Be War Crime

Margaret Besheer

   UNITED NATIONS - Libya's foreign minister said Monday that a deadly
   drone strike on a biscuit factory in the capital, Tripoli, may be a war
   crime.

   "This is a war crime by all means," Mohamed Taher Siala told the U.N.
   Security Council during its regular meeting to discuss the situation in
   the North African country.

   The U.N.'s top official in Libya, Ghassan Salamé, told the council via
   a video link from neighboring Tunis that at least 10 people were killed
   and more than 35 others injured in Monday's strike.

   "It appears the majority of the dead were migrants, but that at least
   two were Libyans," Salamé said. "Regardless of whether the attack
   deliberately targeted the factory or was an indiscriminate attack, it
   may constitute a war crime," he added, echoing the foreign minister's
   charge.

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