TRIPOLI — More than 1,400 checkpoints are to be set up in Tripoli between Feb. 10 and 22, according to the Interior Ministry. The move is in response to concerns there could be violence around the time of the second anniversary of the 17 February Revolution. Federalists have called for mass protests on Feb. 15 to “correct the course of the revolution” and there are fears that, across the country, Gaddafi sympathizers and militants will try to use the occasion to set off bombs and launch attacks on government installations. According to the ministry's Facebook page, there will be 1,434 checkpoints in the capital operating between Feb. 10 and 22. There will also be 640 mobile units patrolling the streets, including 50 armored units.
There are a number of checkpoints most days in Tripoli and several more at night, but they have been increased recently. — Libya Herald
