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Libyan military spokesman killed: Arabiya

Updated: 2011-05-16 09:45

(Xinhua)

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TRIPOLI - Libya's military spokesman Colonel Milad Hussein al-Fiqhi was killed Sunday during a NATO raid that targeted an intelligence building in the Libyan capital Tripoli, Al-Arabiya news channel quoted a source as saying.

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