Nine Libyans Killed in NATO Attack Are Buried - Wall Street Journal

BY RICHARD BOUDREAUX IN TRIPOLI, LIBYA AND SAM DAGHER IN BENGHAZI, LIBYA

Firing rifles in the air and vowing revenge, Libyan mourners Saturday buried nine men they said were Muslim religious leaders and medics killed in an aerial attack by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in a city on the front line of the insurgency against Col. Moammar Gadhafi.

The government said Friday's predawn bombing killed clerics who were part of a private peace initiative by 150 religious and tribal leaders and said they were spending the night in a guest house in Brega en route to the rebel-held city of Ajdabiya in eastern Libya.

But a cleric who said he was ...