Libya shows film of 1996 Gaddafi assassination attempt

The Libyan television presented yesterday film of a failed assassination attempt to which Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi was exposed at El-Ashat valley on 1996.

The shots showed the Libyan leader saluting a gathering in the southern city of Fazan and scenes of a man coming out of the gathering and throwing an object identified as a hand grenade at the Libyan leader from three meters away.

Gaddafi added that the man who threw the object was a British intelligence agent and that admitted to trying to kill Gaddafi.

Most recently, Libya requested that Britain cooperate with Libyan authorities investigating the assassination attempt, and surrender the British citizens involved. These revelations have been the result of a British agent alleging publicly that the British intelligence service was involved in the assassination attempt on the life of Col. Gaddafi.