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Insight - Armed militias hold Libya hostage

  • Libya struggling with progress three years after Gaddafi ouster

  • Rival militias have entrenched divisions

  • Key groups are in Zintan and Misrata

  • History, Gaddafi, left weak institutions, no sense of unity

By Patrick Markey and Ulf Laessing

TRIPOLI, March 30 (Reuters) - When a militia holding Libya's eastern ports loaded a North Korean-flagged tanker with oil earlier this month, the Libyan parliament sacked its own prime minister and turned to U.S. commandos to bring its cargo back.

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