Gunmen fired grenades at the Tripoli home of Libya's new Prime Minister, Ahmed Maiteeq, and his guards killed at least one assailant on Tuesday, just days after parliament approved his appointment in a contested vote. Full details of the morning attack were not clear, but Maiteeq, who is Libya's third premier in two months, was unharmed. "There were two cars and they fired RPGs (rocket-propelled grenades) at his home," a source from the prime minister's office said.
Libya's young democracy is in chaos three years after the civil war that ousted Muammar Gaddafi. Rival Islamist, anti-Islamist, regional and political factions are locked in a complex struggle for influence in the oil-producing country. Maiteeq, a businessman from Misrata, won backing from an Islamist party and independents in a chaotic vote by congress earlier this month. The vote was challenged as illegitimate by rival lawmakers and anti-Islamist factions.
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