Election Commission Offices in Eastern Libya Are Sacked.

CAIRO -- Hundreds of armed protesters on Sunday attacked the offices of Libya's election commission in two cities, Benghazi and Tobruk, in anger over the way seats in next week's planned election for a constituent assembly were distributed among the country's regions. The protesters carried computers, ballot boxes and ballots out of the offices, and shattered and burned them in the streets outside, according to witnesses, news agencies and photographs that circulated on the Internet. Some of the attackers carried signs calling the leader of Libya's interim government a ''traitor'' to the eastern region of the country, known as Cyrenaica, which the protesters said got too few seats in the assembly. Others demanded the writing of a constitution before elections. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]