Libyan woman who claimed rape leaves to US

BENGHAZI, Libya — A relative says a Libyan woman who claimed she was raped by Gadhafi troops says she has left Libya on her way to the United States.

Marwa al-Obeidi says her sister Iman was flown out of Benghazi early Sunday morning.

The sister told The Associated Press that a human rights group aided by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton arranged for Iman and their father to travel in a private plane to the US by way of Malta and Austria.

In March, Iman al-Obeidi burst into a hotel in the Libyan capital of Tripoli where foreign journalists were staying to tell her story of being gang raped by Gadhafi militiamen.

Several days ago she was suddenly deported from Qatar, where she was seeking asylum. She was flown to Benghazi, the de facto capital of Libya's rebels.