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Libyan commander: Head-of-state status grants legal immunity

by Associated Press
| August 21, 2020 1:27 PM

FALLS CHURCH, Va. (AP) — A Libyan military commander who previously lived for decades in Virginia says he deserves immunity from a pair of civil lawsuits accusing him of atrocities and indiscriminate killings because he is Libya's head of state.

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