A notorious militia leader in Libya, sanctioned by the UN for migrant trafficking across the Mediterranean Sea, was killed on Friday in a raid by security forces in the west of the country, according to Libyan authorities. Ahmed Oumar al-Fitouri al-Dabbashi was killed in Sabratha. The raid came in response to an attack on a security outpost by al-Dabbashi’s militia, which left six members of the security forces severely wounded, according to a statement issued by the Security Threat Enforcement Agency, a security entity affiliated with Libya’s western government. Al-Dabbashi, who was also sanctioned by the US Treasury for trafficking, was the leader of a powerful militia, the “Brigade of the Martyr Anas al-Dabbashi,” in Sabratha, the biggest launching point in Libya for Europe-bound African migrants.
