Tripoli woman was in anti-Gaddafi protest —cousin

BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) – A Libyan woman who burst into a Tripoli hotel to show journalists injuries she blamed on Muammar Gaddafi’s militia was first targeted by the authorities after a protest, her cousin said yesterday.

Eman al-Obaidi entered a hotel where foreign journalists were staying on Saturday to show bruises and scars she said were caused by militiamen. She was hurried out of the hotel by security men and hotel staff and bundled into a car.

Government officials in the capital first said