Sunday, February 27, 2011

Libya, arrived in Catania, the Italian San Giorgio with evacuees. Tense calm in Tripoli

The Italian navy ship San Giorgio arrived in Catania, carrying 258 passengers, including 121 Italians. The 250 men of the crew under the command of Captain Henry Giurelli have rescued some people still in the area, taking them from the Libyan port of Misurata. What we need to resolve the matter short of the 25 Italians stuck to Amal in southern Libya.

After hours a Air Force C130 has not received permission to land, a Navy destroyer, the Mimbelli should be taken in the next few hours in the port of Al Byraukah. Meanwhile in Tripoli, there has been a morning of tense calm after the shooting last night. Single shot and burst were heard several times in the night before.

This morning the situation in the city is quiet, the streets are full of cars and you do not see special security measures. The capital seems firmly in the hands of government, who have concentrated their forces on the outskirts of Tripoli. During the night there were violent clashes in the western city of al-Zawiyah.

According to reports from the Arab newspaper al-Quds al-Arabi, quoting witnesses, "the forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi have launched a bitter attack injuring many people. Libyan Customs officers left their posts at Ras Jedir, on the border with Tunisia, where more than 10,000 people have fled yesterday.

Many are now in an overcrowded tent city a few kilometers from the border. The rebels who control the Libyan city of Nalut, a few kilometers from the border with Tunisia, have announced their commitment to a new interim government yesterday formed by the former Libyan Justice Minister, Mustafa Abdel Jalil.

According to reports from Libya, the Libyan news information site, Nalut is the first city to have officially joined the initiative of the former Libyan Minister is leading negotiations with opposition groups and former members of the government of the former regime for form a new government that can govern the regions freed by the rebels in Libya.

The former minister will announce his new government team, which for now will have its headquarters in Benghazi, but that will govern the whole country, in view of the possible fall of the regime of Muammar Gaddafi. The government has also joined the Libyan ambassador to Washington, Ali Aujali, who resigned from office in recent days.

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