'Gaddafi orders explosion of oil pipelines'

By JPOST.COM STAFF AND ASSOCIATED PRESS 
02/23/2011 08:52

Libyan leader tells security forces to blow up oil facilities, cutting off flows to Mediterranean ports, reports Time; number of people killed in anti-gov't protest rises to 300.

 

Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi has ordered his security forces to sabotage oil facilities, Time magazine reported Wednesday quoting a source close to Gaddafi.

According to the report, the forces were ordered to start blowing up oil pipelines in order to cut off flows to ports in the Mediterranean.

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