The leader of the Libyan Revolution Muammar Gadhafi, only has two bastions of resistance against demonstrators calling for his ouster: Tripoli, the capital, and Sirte, his hometown. The rebels have controlled 15 cities, including Benghazi, which is the second largest, and Zauiya, which is 50 km from Tripoli (see chart).
Just yesterday was controlled the second city, whose buildings had bullet holes, reflecting the battle lost by regime loyalists. A police officer who defected 10 days ago to join the protests was "on the condition anonymity, that more than two thousand comrades did the same and that all were willing to defend with their lives Zauiya.
"Yes, we are fighting for freedom, we are ready to die for." Even the experienced Ahmed el-Gatrani general said his forces would also help the rebels. Analysts said that although the revolutionaries could take the capital and attempting to kill Gadhafi, the leader still has the power to foment chaos or civil war.
Muammar blames the organization of Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb for the unrest and said that the people support. However, it is closer, although his son Saif al-Islam Gadhafi said the opposite yesterday to the U.S. program "This Week" on ABC. "The whole South is calm. The West is calm.
The Center is calm. Even some of the East, is very different reality and what is said in the media. " As in Benghazi demonstrators formed a National Council and called it "the political face of the revolution." Abdelhafiz Hoga, a spokesman for the so-called Revolutionary Coalition February 17, emphasized that "there is a provisional government" and that his mission is to "manage the transition process." Hoga added: "The Council has not yet been fully formed and its members have been appointed." Muammar Gadhafi dismissed the new sanctions adopted on Saturday in the Security Council of the United Nations against him and said the rebels will be surrounded and defeated.
In a television interview with Pink Serbia, declared "that UN can not interfere in the internal affairs of other countries, unless a country is attacking another." Gadhafi also accused the world body to "make decisions based on press reports" and called for a UN commission to investigate the situation in his country.
While not yet defeated, Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, and provides support for "post Gadhafi." The officer arrived yesterday in Geneva where he will participate in a session of the Human Rights Council of the UN, and said the international community develop a response "humanitarian" on par "policy" to the Libyan crisis.
Clinton offered U.S. aid (EU) to agents acting in this direction in Libya, but stressed that they are not involved in any negotiations for the departure of Gadhafi. Meanwhile, British Prime Minister, David Cameron, said Gadhafi is time to "go" and added that the Libyan leader will have no role in the future of Libya.
AgenciasLos 11 Mexican nationals were evacuated from Libya aboard a Navy ship arrived in Rome Italian military yesterday (photo) and is expected to depart the next day back to Mexico. "We were desperate to get out," says Sylvester Maciel Abrego engineer, responsible for a project managed in Libya by Italian Tecnomontaggi, who hired Mexicans.
Maciel told that the only risk they ran was when they tried to leave for the airport in Misurata, "there was some unrest and armed individuals." It has not worked for nine days because all employees, Tunisian, Libyan or Thai, and did not show up, "the company decided it could not continue." 
Just yesterday was controlled the second city, whose buildings had bullet holes, reflecting the battle lost by regime loyalists. A police officer who defected 10 days ago to join the protests was "on the condition anonymity, that more than two thousand comrades did the same and that all were willing to defend with their lives Zauiya.
"Yes, we are fighting for freedom, we are ready to die for." Even the experienced Ahmed el-Gatrani general said his forces would also help the rebels. Analysts said that although the revolutionaries could take the capital and attempting to kill Gadhafi, the leader still has the power to foment chaos or civil war.
Muammar blames the organization of Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb for the unrest and said that the people support. However, it is closer, although his son Saif al-Islam Gadhafi said the opposite yesterday to the U.S. program "This Week" on ABC. "The whole South is calm. The West is calm.
The Center is calm. Even some of the East, is very different reality and what is said in the media. " As in Benghazi demonstrators formed a National Council and called it "the political face of the revolution." Abdelhafiz Hoga, a spokesman for the so-called Revolutionary Coalition February 17, emphasized that "there is a provisional government" and that his mission is to "manage the transition process." Hoga added: "The Council has not yet been fully formed and its members have been appointed." Muammar Gadhafi dismissed the new sanctions adopted on Saturday in the Security Council of the United Nations against him and said the rebels will be surrounded and defeated.
In a television interview with Pink Serbia, declared "that UN can not interfere in the internal affairs of other countries, unless a country is attacking another." Gadhafi also accused the world body to "make decisions based on press reports" and called for a UN commission to investigate the situation in his country.
While not yet defeated, Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, and provides support for "post Gadhafi." The officer arrived yesterday in Geneva where he will participate in a session of the Human Rights Council of the UN, and said the international community develop a response "humanitarian" on par "policy" to the Libyan crisis.
Clinton offered U.S. aid (EU) to agents acting in this direction in Libya, but stressed that they are not involved in any negotiations for the departure of Gadhafi. Meanwhile, British Prime Minister, David Cameron, said Gadhafi is time to "go" and added that the Libyan leader will have no role in the future of Libya.
AgenciasLos 11 Mexican nationals were evacuated from Libya aboard a Navy ship arrived in Rome Italian military yesterday (photo) and is expected to depart the next day back to Mexico. "We were desperate to get out," says Sylvester Maciel Abrego engineer, responsible for a project managed in Libya by Italian Tecnomontaggi, who hired Mexicans.
Maciel told that the only risk they ran was when they tried to leave for the airport in Misurata, "there was some unrest and armed individuals." It has not worked for nine days because all employees, Tunisian, Libyan or Thai, and did not show up, "the company decided it could not continue."
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