Washington---US security company Crucible confirmed that one of its employees, David Berry, was the American killed on Tuesday in a militant attack on a luxury hotel in the Libyan capital Tripoli.
Cliff Taylor, chief operating officer of the Virginia-based firm, told AFP he could give no more details about the victim for security reasons, but added that all other Crucible employees were accounted for.
"Today our company was the victim of a terrorist attack," he said. "Our company mourns this extraordinary loss with his family and friends."
Crucible is a "security training and operations firm" providing experts to help protect US government agencies, multinational corporations and non-governmental organizations in difficult areas.
Earlier, US and Libyan officials had confirmed that one American was among nine people killed when gunmen wearing bomb belts detonated a car bomb and stormed the Corinthia Hotel in Tripoli.
AFP
