TRIPOLI/RABAT: Warplanes from
Libya's internationally recognised
government on Thursday bombed
the only functioning commercial
airport in Tripoli on Thursday,
delaying the departure of a
delegation from a rival parliament
for UN peace talks, officials said.
The attack on Matiga airport, a
military base used for commercial
flights after the main airport closed
following heavy fighting there last
summer, damaged the runway but
repairs should be finished later on
Thursday, an airport spokesman said.
No casualties were reported.
But the bombing held up the
departure of a delegation from
Tripoli for Morocco for talks hosted
by the United Nations to persuade
the country's warring parties to form
a national government.
Libya is locked in a power struggle
between two governments and
parliaments battling for control of
the large North African country and
its oil resources four years after
rebels ousted veteran autocrat
Muammar Gaddafi.
