The Libyan rebels' top military commander was assassinated
at a hotel that serves as opposition headquarters in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi today.

Abdel Fattah Younes, 67, a former Muammar Gadhafi loyalist and onetime Libyan interior minister who had switched sides early in the uprising, was shot dead, along with two aides, in an ambush.
"We received news today that ... Younes and two of his bodyguards were shot at after he was called in to appear before a judicial committee investigating military issues," rebel leader Mustafa Abdel Jalil told journalists in Benghazi, Reuters reported.
Shortly after Jalil spoke to reporters, however, "gunmen burst into the grounds of the hotel where Jalil was speaking and fired bursts of shots in the air," Reuters reported, citing its reporter at the scene.
Younes had been summoned to Benghazi from the front Thursday, amid rumors "that he was being accused of conducting secret talks with the Gadhafi government," McClatchy reported.
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