A string of assassinations, generally assumed to be the work of Syria or its friends, has stopped.
By June, Benghazi had experienced a string of assassinations as well as attacks on the Red Cross and a British envoy's motorcade.
Their purported plan was to incite chaos through a string of assassinations and bomb attacks designed to provoke the army to intervene.
The 65-year-old ex-general is charging the weak central government with failing to stem a string of assassinations of army and police officers across eastern Libya.
In the last three years, the country has also had a string of assassinations of anti-Syrian officials, journalists and a top Lebanese Army official.
In one short week, Lebanon, already battered by a string of assassinations and a crippling power struggle between opposing factions, has taken three more blows.The first came in the now-familiar form of a ruthlessly efficient car bomb.
By this spring, Benghazi, a hotbed of militant activity in eastern Libya, had experienced a string of assassinations, an attack on a British envoy's motorcade and the explosion of a bomb outside the American Mission.
Across the country, a string of assassinations has been blamed on al-Qaeda.Yemen's president, Abdo Rabbu Mansour Hadi, who came to power a year ago in the wake of a year-long uprising against his predecessor, Ali Abdullah Saleh, is a southerner himself.
Although Iraqi officials have amassed what has been described as a strong case tying Mr. Hashimi's bodyguards to a string of assassinations, there is scant evidence against Mr. Hashimi beyond the bodyguards' confessions.
A string of assassinations through the summer jolted the city, targeting high-level officials, including Ahmed Wali Karzai, President Hamid Karzai's half brother and the influential leader of the Kandahar provincial council, as well as ordinary civil servants and tribal elders.
