VOL. XXXIX

No. 44

29-July-1996

LIBYA

Purge Committees Close Waha Offices In Tripoli

According to the Saudi daily Asharq al-Awsat of 24 July, members of the Purge Committees on 23 July attacked the Tripoli headquarters of the Waha Oil Company and the Oil Research Center (both subsidiaries of the National Oil Corporation), expelling their employees and closing their offices. The paper gave no reason for these incidents, nor did it provide any further information about the status of oil...