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Headstones on World War II military graves in Libya's eastern city of Benghazi have again been desecrated in the second such attack in four months, local officials said on Saturday. "On Thursday, Christian graves were desecrated for a second time in Benghazi," Mohammed al Quzairi of the local security committee told AFP, adding that the identity of the assailants was unclear.
The Benghazi civilian council said it was trying to track down those responsible. "We are co-operating with the security committee to ascertain the identity of the assailants and bring them to justice as quickly as possible," its spokesman, Khaled al-Jazawi, said. A similar attack hit the same military cemetery in February.
The assailants shattered headstones of British and allied servicemen who fought in North African desert campaigns against the Nazis during World War II. Reports at the time blamed the act on Salafists angered by the burning of the Koran at a Nato base in Afghanistan in early February. Benghazi, Libya's second city and the cradle of the 2011 revolt that toppled Muammar Qadhafi, has witnessed a wave of attacks against Western targets in recent weeks.

Copyright Agence France-Presse, 2012

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