{"id":10890,"date":"2013-10-13T07:31:49","date_gmt":"2013-10-13T07:31:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/libya-pm-zeidan-s-brief-kidnap-was-attempted-coup\/"},"modified":"2013-10-13T07:31:37","modified_gmt":"2013-10-13T07:31:37","slug":"libya-pm-zeidan-s-brief-kidnap-was-attempted-coup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/libya-pm-zeidan-s-brief-kidnap-was-attempted-coup\/","title":{"rendered":"Libya PM Zeidan’s brief kidnap was ‘attempted coup’"},"content":{"rendered":"

{{Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zeidan has said his brief kidnap this week was an “attempted coup”, blaming his political opponents for the attack.}}<\/p>\n

In a TV address to the nation, he said an unnamed political party in the congress was behind the abduction.<\/p>\n

Ali Zeidan was seized from a Tripoli hotel on Thursday and held for several hours by armed militiamen.<\/p>\n

He praised the armed groups that came to rescue him and later called for calm in the increasingly lawless country.<\/p>\n

{{‘Dangerous minority’}}<\/p>\n

In the TV address with members of his cabinet standing staunchly around him, Mr Zeidan said that his kidnap “bears the hallmarks of an attempted coup d’etat against legitimacy”.<\/p>\n

“A political party”, he said, was behind what he described as the “criminal and terrorist act”.<\/p>\n

Referring to his political opponents as a “dangerous minority”, the prime minister said they had tried to secure enough votes in the congress to have him dismissed.<\/p>\n

“When they failed to bring down the government through democratic means, they resorted to the use of force,” he added.<\/p>\n

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{Ali Zeidan: “This bears the hallmarks of an attempted coup d’etat against legitimacy”}<\/p>\n

Agencies<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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