TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — A suicide car bomb attack on a military
checkpoint on the outskirts of Libya's restive eastern city of
Benghazi killed 13 people Sunday, the government said.  It was
the latest episode of violence to rock the city, the birthplace
of Libya's 2011 uprising, two years after the end of the eight-
month civil war that toppled and killed longtime dictator
Moammar Gadhafi.  Much of Libya is experiencing a security
vacuum but attacks against the military and security forces are
particularly common in Benghazi, a stronghold of militias with
roots in anti-Gadhafi rebel brigades. Some of the groups are
Islamic hard-liners.  "The perfidious terrorist attack left 13
martyrs from our best sons including brave soldiers and security
men," the government statement said. It said three other
soldiers were wounded, without giving a breakdown in the
casualties between soldiers and civilians.  The government
announced three days mourning and postponed the country's
independence celebrations, previously set for