BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) – Libyan rebels say the gunmen who shot dead their military chief were members of an Islamist-linked militia that is allied to their struggle to overthrow veteran leader Muammar Gaddafi. The assassination of Abdel Fattah Younes, apparently by his own side, has hurt the opposition just as it was winning broader international recognition and launching an offensive against Gaddafi’s forces in the west of the country. It will deepen concerns among the rebels’ Western backers including the United States, keen to see them prevail in a five-month-old civil war but frustrated by…
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