French Embassy in Tripoli Bombed, 2 Injured

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A car bomb hit the France embassy in Libya, wounding two French guards and causing extensive damage in the first attack on a foreign mission since militants stormed the US consulate in Benghazi in September.

The Libyan foreign minister called the attack in Tripoli a "terrorist" incident.
Media reported that the site said the wall surrounding the property was destroyed and the embassy building extensively damaged. Two cars parked near the embassy were also destroyed.
A French source confirmed an attack against the embassy and said one guard was seriously wounded and another lightly hurt.

France condemned the "odious" attack.

"In liaison with the Libyan authorities, the services of the state will do everything to establish the circumstances of this odious act and rapidly identify the perpetrators," Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said in a statement.
Libyan Foreign Minister Mohammed Abdel Aziz condemned the bombing as a "terrorist act," but decline to speculate on who carried it out or what the motive was.

"We strongly condemn this act, which we regard as a terrorist act against a brother nation that supported Libya during the revolution" of 2011 that ousted the regime of Moamer Qaddafi, Abdel Aziz told AFP at the scene of the blast.
"We regret this act and express our solidarity with the French government and people," he added, announcing the a joint commission had been formed to investigate the attack.

France, under then president Nicolas Sarkozy, led NATO air raids against Qaddafi's forces under a UN resolution aimed at protecting civilians.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by moqawama.org