Libya burns, world ignores it
Rival militia groups are engaged in increasingly bloody fighting, and fires rage in central Tripoli, but the world's powers have no interest in putting out the fires or halting the violence.
Tripoli is in flames. A large fire that started July 27 during fighting between rival militias on the city's central airport road now engulfs two major fuel tanks and has continued to spread while the body count ticks upward.
Not only are Tripoli's few firefighters, who must brave what is effectively a war zone to do their job, making little progress, but bullets continue to hit the huge storage facility of the Brega Oil and Gas Co. The fires were so large that at their peak they were visible on satellite images.
