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¿Perfil bajo es salir en el 20minutos? jajajajaj
Espero que no los cojan prisioneros los del ejército libio, porque los veo merendando sus propios....

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El CRJ-700 de Bombardier no tiene 160 plazas, como el resto de la información sea igual.......

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Cambio el tema donde puse la noticia antes y amplío la información, aún no hay confirmación plena pero puede que el asesinado sea el presidente de Secopex:

Head of French Company Is Killed in Libyan City.

BENGHAZI, Libya — The president of a French private security company who had scheduled a meeting on Thursday to discuss business opportunities with opponents of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi died in a hospital here on Wednesday, apparently after he was shot in the stomach, the French Foreign Ministry and rebel officials here in Benghazi said.

The circumstances that led to the shooting were murky on Thursday, as was the status of four of the executive’s colleagues, who were reported to have been detained. No one seemed to be sure who was holding them: Benghazi’s civil prosecutor referred questions to military prosecutors, who in turn said they could not comment on a continuing case.

“We are very sorry for what happened,” said Gen. Ahmed al-Ghatrani, a rebel military spokesman, who blamed “gangs that the old regime used,” without providing additional details.

In Paris, the Foreign Ministry released an equally murky statement, asserting that the police in Benghazi had detained five French citizens on Wednesday night, and that “one of them was hurt by a bullet and died during the night in Benghazi hospital.”

The statement did not identify any of those people, but it said: “Our representative on the spot is demanding to see our detained compatriots. He is in contact with the local authorities to examine the situation of those held.”

The authorities did not release the name of the dead man, but several people said he was Pierre Marziali, the president of Secopex, a private security company based in Carcassonne, France.

The confusion about the shooting contributed to a growing feeling that a shadow war is simmering in Benghazi between the many militias under the rebel umbrella and former Qaddafi loyalists or other groups with unknown allegiances. No one seemed able to say who had attacked the Secopex team, and no one seemed to know, or was willing to say, exactly why the security contractors were in Libya.

A woman who answered the telephone at Secopex’s offices on Thursday, sounding shaken, said she “had no information” on the company’s team in Libya.

Secopex has been said in many news reports to be the only private military security company in France. According to its Web site, Mr. Marziali co-founded the company in 2003 and it specializes, among other things, in training bodyguards.

Agence France-Presse reported in 2008 that the company had brokered a deal with the Somali government to create a unified coast guard and to train the bodyguards of Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed, then Somalia’s president.

A former employee at Secopex who spoke only on condition of anonymity said, “Mr. Marziali went to Libya on a mission which, I believe, had been ordered by France.”

Because France has not sent troops to Libya, Secopex was engaged for “protection missions,” the man said. Those assertions could not be independently confirmed, but several countries, including France, have sent military advisers to aid the rebels, who have struggled against Colonel Qaddafi’s more seasoned and better equipped forces.

Rebel officials, in the past, have said they would consider the possibility of hiring private companies to help secure vital public works, including oil fields.

The former employee described Mr. Marziali, a former paratrooper, as “pleasant, audacious and well connected.”

In Benghazi, the Secopex team had stayed for at least a month in a residential neighborhood in a two-story private villa with a high wall surrounding it. They told one resident that they worked in “logistics support.” By midnight on Wednesday, the house was empty, a neighbor said. Several pickups like the ones used by some of the rebel militias arrived at the house, and men went inside, returning with several pieces of luggage.

A rebel spokesman said that Mr. Marziali had been scheduled to speak with the vice chairman of the opposition’s Transitional National Council, Abdul Hafidh Ghoga, on Thursday morning. By Thursday afternoon, rebel officials were at the morgue at Jalaa Hospital in Benghazi, apparently trying to identify Mr. Marziali, who had what appeared to be a bullet hole in his stomach.

General Ghatrani, the rebel military spokesman, said military investigators were cooperating with French diplomats.

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Mas de la misma noticia de SECOPEX:
http://www.elpais.com/articulo/internac ... iint_7/Tes

Oscuro asesinato de un exmilitar francés en Bengasi
Los rebeldes acusan a la víctima de ser "una amenaza para Libia"
MAITE RICO (ENVIADA ESPECIAL) - Bengasi - 14/05/2011

Pierre Marziali llegó en la tarde del miércoles a Bengasi. Le acompañaba un socio de su empresa, Secopex. En la capital de los rebeldes libios les esperaban otros tres compañeros, la avanzadilla de esa firma francesa de seguridad: al día siguiente se reunirían con las nuevas autoridades para negociar un contrato de asesoría. Apenas un par de horas después de su llegada, Marziali ingresaba en el hospital Jalaa con el abdomen destrozado de un balazo. Sus compañeros desaparecieron de la escena.

Comenzaba así un oscuro episodio que ninguno de los interesados parece dispuesto a aclarar. El Gobierno francés se limitó a anunciar, pasadas 24 horas, la muerte "de un ciudadano francés" en un control de seguridad y la detención de sus cuatro acompañantes. Las autoridades rebeldes rompieron anoche su silencio y afirmaron que el equipo francés "ponía en peligro la seguridad de la Libia libre". Los cinco, dice la nota del Consejo Nacional de Transición, iban a ser detenidos, pero "desgraciadamente se resistió y fue alcanzado por accidente".

En el hospital Jalaa de Bengasi, Jaled Bashir, encargado de administración, juguetea con el pasaporte de Marziali. 48 años. 1,85 metros de estatura. Ojos azules. Entre 2009 y 2011 había viajado a Mauritania, Níger, Malí, República Centroafricana... Nada raro si se tiene en cuenta que este exparacaidista, fundador de Secopex, tenía en los países africanos buenos clientes. A Libia había entrado ya en abril desde Túnez, a la zona controlada por Muamar el Gadafi, y apenas había estado cuatro días.

Una fuente hospitalaria indicó ayer a EL PAIS que Marziali no fue tiroteado en un control, sino junto a su vivienda, en el barrio de Fuayed. El exmilitar recibió el disparo por la espalda. "Una bala de Kaláshnikov", asegura la misma fuente. Su cadáver, aún en la morgue, será repatriado hoy por avión.

El tiro por la espalda no acaba de corresponderse con una situación en la que alguien "opone resistencia". La versión oficial de los rebeldes presenta otros puntos oscuros. En primer lugar, los expertos franceses mantenían un estrecho contacto con ellos, y el jueves se iban a reunir nada menos que con el vicepresidente del Consejo Nacional de Transición, Abdel Hafiz Ghoga. Además, desde el principio, un portavoz militar culpó del asesinato a "una célula gadafista" que pretendía "generar un conflicto" con Francia, el gran aliado de Bengasi.

Otros rumores, sin embargo, apuntaban a la acción de una milicia rebelde. ¿Intenta el Gobierno interino encubrir un crimen perpetrado por alguna de sus brigadas? ¿O efectivamente los especialistas franceses realizaban "actividades ilegales"? El asunto es una patata caliente para Bengasi, que tiene en Francia a su principal valedor internacional, y para París, que siempre ha mirado con suspicacia las actividades de Secopex.

Llegados hace tres semanas, Eric, Fréderic y Pierre, la avanzadilla de la empresa, eran unos tipos afables. No iban armados. Uniformados con botas y chalecos de color beige, paseaban por la plaza de los juzgados, corazón de la revuelta. "No tenemos nada que ver con los mercenarios, ni vendemos armas", comentaba Pierre a este periódico pocas horas antes del suceso. "Los rebeldes libios nos han pedido asesoría y material, más que nada camiones y equipos de telecomunicaciones". Desde el jueves, nadie contesta su teléfono.