Allied military intervention in Libya, which now enters its fourth day of bombing has not stopped for the moment the offensive Muammar Gaddafi on the cities which remain under rebel control. Forces loyal to the dictator have taken up early in Tuesday's attack on Misrata, third largest city east of Tripoli.
Tanks and heavy artillery have been deployed around the enclave and begun to fire on rebel targets also causing civilian casualties. Yesterday, British planes stopped bombing in the area forced the presence of civilians as human shields. Gadhafi's offense is leading Misrata just what it seeks to avoid the international coalition, civilian casualties.
Allied bombing raids have forced government troops to move into the city to avoid being an easy target for Western aircraft. At least 40 people were killed yesterday and today in the besieged city. The victims included four children who fled the fighting this morning in a car that has been reduced to rubble by the bullets of the regime, according to one resident told the agency Misrata.
The doctors can not cope. Attend to the wounded in hospital corridors Misrata, collapsed by the constant stream of casualties from the fighting. "It's a catastrophic situation," said the witness. "The tanks have begun to throw their shells this morning." "Snipers are also involved in the operation.
A car with children inside has been reached. None of the children exceeded 13 years," he explained. "We call for humanitarian organizations to intervene as soon as possible to provide food and medicine." A spokesman for the rebels who rule the city explained that the situation is aggravated by the shortage of doctors.
"There are not enough beds. There is no room, so that most operations are carried out in the hallways." The rebel spokesman has said that government forces have arrived to shoot three ambulances, killing two drivers. The entry of armor caused yesterday that many people out into the street to meet the military's soldiers, who fired into the crowd and according to witnesses quoted by Agence France Presse.
An F-15 in trouble the other hand, U.S. aircraft participating in the military operation has crashed this last night on Libyan soil, said today Britain's Daily Telegraph. The fighter, an F-15, had suffered a mechanical failure and one of the two pilots have been rescued by the Libyan rebels, according to this newspaper.
Hours later, U.S. military spokesman in Africa (Africom), Vince Crawley, has ruled that the plane had been shot down by the defenses of the regime. Soon after, U.S. military sources have reported the discovery of the missing pilot. The military allies are acting in a limited scope of action.
The coalition ground forces yesterday attacked the scheme operating in the area of Ajdabiya and, at night, turned to shoot at targets in Tripoli, but declined throughout the day to extend the spectrum of targets. In addition to attacks in Misrata, the other point of serious fighting is Ajdabiya.
According to Al Jazeera, after a day of heavy fighting, the rebels lost control of the city last week have made progress today in their positions because they are still loyal troops overcome despite the coalition airstrikes Western. Insurgent fighters are about five kilometers from the city, which lies at the point of entry to the east of the country, near Benghazi.
In addition, anti-combatants said they are crippling bombing Gaddafi's weapons, though his forces still pose a major threat. "Gaddafi has tanks and trucks with rockets," said Ahmed al Aroufi, a rebel who is on the front line. Qatari television has shown images of black columns of smoke rising in the east of the city, where clashes have been stronger, according to his correspondent.
Ajdabiya is a strategic location to control the east of the country and connecting with other Benghazi and Tobruk road, near the border with Egypt. Loyalist forces also bombed Qaddafi Zinta city, 140 kilometers southwest of Tripoli, destroying several houses and the minaret of a mosque, as reported by two witnesses, who have ensured that the residents of this town have been forced to take refuge in several caves in the mountains near the town.
Several residents speak at least 10 killed by bombing. "They have sent new forces to besiege the city. Now there are at least 40 tanks on the slopes of nearby mountains," he added. Swiss journalist Gaetan Vannay indicated by telephone that the bombing Monday was the most intense of the last three days.
"Today is very tough battle has begun on the eastern front. Women and children are hiding in caves in the woods," he recounted. According to Maria Jesus Vega, spokesman for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Spain, some 325,000 people have fled to countries like Tunisia, Libya and Egypt since mid-February following the riots in the North African country.
Specifically, UNHCR has specified Europa Press that "165,000 people have fled to Tunisia to Egypt nearly 140,000, more than 9,000 to about 6,000 to Algeria and Niger." Vega has said that "the high commissioner knows that there are groups of displaced inside the country and the security situation is going Libya prevents humanitarian organizations to make a reliable assessment." Three nights of allied bombardment The objective of the mission, to which Spain joined yesterday its first aircraft-marked by resolution 1973 of the Security Council of the UN is simply to protect civilians from attacks by the forces of the regime.
The narrowness of the mandate and the fragile political consensus behind the mission to prevent a broad interpretation of the operation. The allies focused their initial attacks especially in fixed positions Libyan air defense, to patrol the skies without pending threats. Now fixed air defenses are wiped out, and although it is possible that the regime retains the mobile, these are not a major concern for the coalition.
So now the attacks seem to focus on ground forces of the system in action, and strategic operational centers bombed-like structures on the premises of the dictator in Tripoli, to isolate or decapitate the command structures. The military allies are acting in a limited scope of action. The coalition ground forces yesterday attacked the scheme operating in the area of Ajdabiya and, at night, turned to shoot at targets in Tripoli, but declined throughout the day to extend the spectrum of targets.
The capital has experienced its third night of bombing, which began shortly after nine o'clock at night. Explosions were heard, which according to France Presse again aim Gaddafi's presidential compound and a Libyan naval base 10 kilometers from the city, followed by the firing of antiaircraft batteries.
A few hours later, the television channel Al Jazeera reported that coalition forces had attacked the radar fixed on Gaddafi's two air bases east of Benghazi. Gaddafi's forces, limited this picture means the coalition has managed to limit the scope for powerful forces of Qaddafi, but the current level of pressure does not seem sufficient to cause its ranks a rout that leaves bare the regime .
Rebel forces are likely to struggle to gain ground. The military relationship between allies and rebels is naturally a key aspect of the campaign. A rebel spokesman said this morning that there were contacts between the parties, "to point to the location of coalition forces loyal to the regime." However, the general Ham have denied that any contact, "formal or informal, with the rebels.
Ham had also ruled emphatically that the coalition special forces in the field. His presence would be useful for gathering information from the field and advise the action of the rebels, but would be a political bombshell, and the same Libyan opposition rejects the option. The annihilation of air defenses and the arrival of new military aircraft yesterday allowed to extend to the west-fly zone, which now covers a thousand miles off the Libyan coast.
Some 80 aircraft left yesterday to patrol the area, more than half of them belonging to European armed forces. Canadian and Belgian aircraft joined operations. For their part, NATO ambassadors meeting this morning at the NATO headquarters in Brussels have finally given the green light naval arms embargo on Libya, as reported by diplomats in the capital community.
In this sense, the French aircraft nuclear-powered Charles de Gaulle is scheduled to arrive today on the coasts of Libya from the port of Toulon. The flotilla of frigates and their accompanying fighters manning become much more operational French military action. 
Tanks and heavy artillery have been deployed around the enclave and begun to fire on rebel targets also causing civilian casualties. Yesterday, British planes stopped bombing in the area forced the presence of civilians as human shields. Gadhafi's offense is leading Misrata just what it seeks to avoid the international coalition, civilian casualties.
Allied bombing raids have forced government troops to move into the city to avoid being an easy target for Western aircraft. At least 40 people were killed yesterday and today in the besieged city. The victims included four children who fled the fighting this morning in a car that has been reduced to rubble by the bullets of the regime, according to one resident told the agency Misrata.
The doctors can not cope. Attend to the wounded in hospital corridors Misrata, collapsed by the constant stream of casualties from the fighting. "It's a catastrophic situation," said the witness. "The tanks have begun to throw their shells this morning." "Snipers are also involved in the operation.
A car with children inside has been reached. None of the children exceeded 13 years," he explained. "We call for humanitarian organizations to intervene as soon as possible to provide food and medicine." A spokesman for the rebels who rule the city explained that the situation is aggravated by the shortage of doctors.
"There are not enough beds. There is no room, so that most operations are carried out in the hallways." The rebel spokesman has said that government forces have arrived to shoot three ambulances, killing two drivers. The entry of armor caused yesterday that many people out into the street to meet the military's soldiers, who fired into the crowd and according to witnesses quoted by Agence France Presse.
An F-15 in trouble the other hand, U.S. aircraft participating in the military operation has crashed this last night on Libyan soil, said today Britain's Daily Telegraph. The fighter, an F-15, had suffered a mechanical failure and one of the two pilots have been rescued by the Libyan rebels, according to this newspaper.
Hours later, U.S. military spokesman in Africa (Africom), Vince Crawley, has ruled that the plane had been shot down by the defenses of the regime. Soon after, U.S. military sources have reported the discovery of the missing pilot. The military allies are acting in a limited scope of action.
The coalition ground forces yesterday attacked the scheme operating in the area of Ajdabiya and, at night, turned to shoot at targets in Tripoli, but declined throughout the day to extend the spectrum of targets. In addition to attacks in Misrata, the other point of serious fighting is Ajdabiya.
According to Al Jazeera, after a day of heavy fighting, the rebels lost control of the city last week have made progress today in their positions because they are still loyal troops overcome despite the coalition airstrikes Western. Insurgent fighters are about five kilometers from the city, which lies at the point of entry to the east of the country, near Benghazi.
In addition, anti-combatants said they are crippling bombing Gaddafi's weapons, though his forces still pose a major threat. "Gaddafi has tanks and trucks with rockets," said Ahmed al Aroufi, a rebel who is on the front line. Qatari television has shown images of black columns of smoke rising in the east of the city, where clashes have been stronger, according to his correspondent.
Ajdabiya is a strategic location to control the east of the country and connecting with other Benghazi and Tobruk road, near the border with Egypt. Loyalist forces also bombed Qaddafi Zinta city, 140 kilometers southwest of Tripoli, destroying several houses and the minaret of a mosque, as reported by two witnesses, who have ensured that the residents of this town have been forced to take refuge in several caves in the mountains near the town.
Several residents speak at least 10 killed by bombing. "They have sent new forces to besiege the city. Now there are at least 40 tanks on the slopes of nearby mountains," he added. Swiss journalist Gaetan Vannay indicated by telephone that the bombing Monday was the most intense of the last three days.
"Today is very tough battle has begun on the eastern front. Women and children are hiding in caves in the woods," he recounted. According to Maria Jesus Vega, spokesman for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Spain, some 325,000 people have fled to countries like Tunisia, Libya and Egypt since mid-February following the riots in the North African country.
Specifically, UNHCR has specified Europa Press that "165,000 people have fled to Tunisia to Egypt nearly 140,000, more than 9,000 to about 6,000 to Algeria and Niger." Vega has said that "the high commissioner knows that there are groups of displaced inside the country and the security situation is going Libya prevents humanitarian organizations to make a reliable assessment." Three nights of allied bombardment The objective of the mission, to which Spain joined yesterday its first aircraft-marked by resolution 1973 of the Security Council of the UN is simply to protect civilians from attacks by the forces of the regime.
The narrowness of the mandate and the fragile political consensus behind the mission to prevent a broad interpretation of the operation. The allies focused their initial attacks especially in fixed positions Libyan air defense, to patrol the skies without pending threats. Now fixed air defenses are wiped out, and although it is possible that the regime retains the mobile, these are not a major concern for the coalition.
So now the attacks seem to focus on ground forces of the system in action, and strategic operational centers bombed-like structures on the premises of the dictator in Tripoli, to isolate or decapitate the command structures. The military allies are acting in a limited scope of action. The coalition ground forces yesterday attacked the scheme operating in the area of Ajdabiya and, at night, turned to shoot at targets in Tripoli, but declined throughout the day to extend the spectrum of targets.
The capital has experienced its third night of bombing, which began shortly after nine o'clock at night. Explosions were heard, which according to France Presse again aim Gaddafi's presidential compound and a Libyan naval base 10 kilometers from the city, followed by the firing of antiaircraft batteries.
A few hours later, the television channel Al Jazeera reported that coalition forces had attacked the radar fixed on Gaddafi's two air bases east of Benghazi. Gaddafi's forces, limited this picture means the coalition has managed to limit the scope for powerful forces of Qaddafi, but the current level of pressure does not seem sufficient to cause its ranks a rout that leaves bare the regime .
Rebel forces are likely to struggle to gain ground. The military relationship between allies and rebels is naturally a key aspect of the campaign. A rebel spokesman said this morning that there were contacts between the parties, "to point to the location of coalition forces loyal to the regime." However, the general Ham have denied that any contact, "formal or informal, with the rebels.
Ham had also ruled emphatically that the coalition special forces in the field. His presence would be useful for gathering information from the field and advise the action of the rebels, but would be a political bombshell, and the same Libyan opposition rejects the option. The annihilation of air defenses and the arrival of new military aircraft yesterday allowed to extend to the west-fly zone, which now covers a thousand miles off the Libyan coast.
Some 80 aircraft left yesterday to patrol the area, more than half of them belonging to European armed forces. Canadian and Belgian aircraft joined operations. For their part, NATO ambassadors meeting this morning at the NATO headquarters in Brussels have finally given the green light naval arms embargo on Libya, as reported by diplomats in the capital community.
In this sense, the French aircraft nuclear-powered Charles de Gaulle is scheduled to arrive today on the coasts of Libya from the port of Toulon. The flotilla of frigates and their accompanying fighters manning become much more operational French military action.
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