Monday, February 28, 2011

Libya, Misurata battle in and around Benghazi. Clinton: "No option ruled out"

In Libya, the battle continues, with the military loyal to the regime trying to gain the ground lost in recent days. Of munitions in areas under the control of the rebellion in eastern Libya were targeted by air strikes conducted by forces of leader Muammar Gaddafi. The sources said concordant in Benghazi.

Among other things, a store was shot in Adjabiya, a hundred kilometers south of Benghazi, reported a witness on the phone. Another attack was carried out by helicopters of the troops loyal to Muammar Gaddafi against the radio station of the city of Misurata, fall a few days in the hands of insurgents.

The rebels announced that it has shot down a helicopter. It is unclear whether the aircraft is one of those who had participated in the attack. The five crew members were captured. Meanwhile, the former head of Libyan intelligence abroad, Bouzid Durda, was commissioned by Gadhafi to negotiate with the leaders of the revolt.

He told the Arab television Al Jazeera. According to Ibrahim Moussa, government spokesman for the foreign press in Tripoli, the Libyan government has control over three of the four regions of the country, while "some pockets of resistance are only in the city of Tripoli as Al Zawiya and measured.

Moussa has also launched a threat: "If the Western imperialists attack us, there will be thousands of deaths. The West wants our oil, al-Qaida wants a cradle of the Mediterranean to threaten Europe ". Responded to the claims of the scheme the Secretary of State Hillary Clinton reaffirmed the U.S.

support a fundamental and irreversible transition. " He then invited the dictator to "leave immediately without further violence or postponement. The United States continues to explore all the options, nothing is excluded, if the Libyan government continues to threaten and kill the Libyan nationals.

" The White House spokesman Jay Carney said that Gaddafi's exile "still a chance" to meet international demands that you leave power. The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court in The Hague announced the initiation of a preliminary investigation into the violence in Libya, the first step toward a possible formal investigation for crimes against humanity.

While continuing operations to evacuate foreigners. From the port of Al Byraukah in the Gulf of Sirte, the destroyer sailed Navy Mimbelli: on board 298 persons, mostly foreign workers of an Italian company, including four Italians in the group who had been stuck without food Amal . The ship should arrive tomorrow in Catania.

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