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Libya Says It Dismantled Drone Sabotage Cell Targeting Oil Sites
(MENAFN) Libya's Government of National Unity announced Sunday that it had broken up an organized "sabotage cell" responsible for a string of drone attacks on oil and electricity infrastructure in the capital Tripoli and the western city of Zawiya.
According to a government statement, an intelligence and security operation carried out by the Defense Ministry led to the arrest of five suspects — a mix of Libyan and foreign nationals — though the statement did not disclose the foreign suspects' nationalities.
The attacks unfolded during the first half of August, when facilities at the Zawiya oil complex, located roughly 50 kilometers (31 miles) west of Tripoli, came under unidentified strikes involving remotely detonated explosive drones, damaging oil infrastructure. Power generation and water facilities in Zawiya were hit in similar fashion during the same window. Separately, an oil storage tank and a power station in Tripoli were also targeted, though those attacks caused no damage.
The government said the Defense Ministry additionally foiled "other plots that were close to being carried out," including schemes to strike a power station south of Tripoli, other critical infrastructure, and political, security and military figures.
Investigators determined the incidents were "not isolated or random acts, but rather part of a broad and interconnected sabotage plot involving multiple parties, tools and objectives," the statement said, adding that the plot "systematically targeted infrastructure, energy resources and oil and electricity facilities."
"Dismantling this cell is not the end of the operation but the beginning of uncovering all the threads and extensions of this plot," the government said, vowing to continue pursuing the remaining suspects and to identify all those who planned, financed, supported, facilitated, incited or provided cover for the attacks.
According to a government statement, an intelligence and security operation carried out by the Defense Ministry led to the arrest of five suspects — a mix of Libyan and foreign nationals — though the statement did not disclose the foreign suspects' nationalities.
The attacks unfolded during the first half of August, when facilities at the Zawiya oil complex, located roughly 50 kilometers (31 miles) west of Tripoli, came under unidentified strikes involving remotely detonated explosive drones, damaging oil infrastructure. Power generation and water facilities in Zawiya were hit in similar fashion during the same window. Separately, an oil storage tank and a power station in Tripoli were also targeted, though those attacks caused no damage.
The government said the Defense Ministry additionally foiled "other plots that were close to being carried out," including schemes to strike a power station south of Tripoli, other critical infrastructure, and political, security and military figures.
Investigators determined the incidents were "not isolated or random acts, but rather part of a broad and interconnected sabotage plot involving multiple parties, tools and objectives," the statement said, adding that the plot "systematically targeted infrastructure, energy resources and oil and electricity facilities."
"Dismantling this cell is not the end of the operation but the beginning of uncovering all the threads and extensions of this plot," the government said, vowing to continue pursuing the remaining suspects and to identify all those who planned, financed, supported, facilitated, incited or provided cover for the attacks.
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