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Italy's foreign minister said Libya is "absolutely out of control" and noted that ENI, Libya's biggest foreign oil partner, has threatened to close wells. "Protesters" have closed all of eastern Libya's export terminals. Only hours after a Libyan military "show of force" in Benghazi, an officer in the municipal guard was shot and killed. A legal adviser to the Benghazi Defence ministry was kidnapped two days ago. The general prosecutor for the Jebel Akhdar region was killed by a car bomb in Derna, which currently has no security forces or government.