Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zeidan was abducted by gunmen who snatched him from his hotel and held him for several hours in apparent retaliation for a US special forces raid that captured an al Qaida suspect in Tripoli last weekend.

Libyan prime minister Ali Zeidan has been kidnapped by gunmen from a hotel in Tripoli where he resides, officials said.

LIBYA’S rebels want to drive Muammar Gaddafi from power and see him tried — not have him killed, a European representative for the leading opposition group said yesterday.

When the FBI came knocking on his door, Malek Zeidan wasn’t worried.