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Suspected Islamist gunmen broke into the Benghazi home of prominent rights activist and lawyer Salwa Bughaigis yesterday and murdered her, kidnapped her husband, and shot a gardener. A large car bomb exploded in Beida near the headquarters of the Constitutional Assembly, injuring several people. Two Tunisian diplomats abducted this spring have been freed; their kidnappers, a Tunisian militant Islamic group called Shabab Al-Tawhid, had demanded the release of two Libyans imprisoned in Tunisia. Two Turkish employees of Turkey's Summa Construction company disappeared in Tripoli.