Libyan Olympic Committee President Kidnapped in Capital

July 19, 2012 07:52

On July 16, an official of the Libyan Olympic Committee said that the chairman of this committee, Nabil al-Alam, was kidnapped in the center of the capital.Tripoli.




According to the official, nine gunmen in military uniforms dragged Mr. Alam from his car while he was in the city center and then took the Libyan Olympic Committee President to an unknown location.


Army and Ministry of InteriorLibyaThere is no information about this kidnapping yet.


The incident occurred just days before the Libyan delegation to the 2012 London Summer Olympics departed for the UK. The five-member delegation will compete in judo, marathon, women's 100m and weightlifting.


Before the wave of protests last year that toppled leader Muammar Gaddafi, the position of President of the country's Olympic Committee belonged to Gaddafi's eldest son, Mohammed, who is currently a refugee in Algeria with

other family members./.


According to Vietnam+M