The fighting raged between the opposition and forces loyal to Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, Friday, March 4, while confusion reigned in the country on the status of forces. The insurgents, masters of the east, continued their advance westward. By early evening, after having launched a major attack, they claimed the capture of the town of Ras Lanuf, a major oil terminal in the Gulf of Sirte, 600 km east of the capital Tripoli, controlled by the army regular.
The violent clashes, marked by intense bombing and artillery fire, have resulted in "many casualties", witnesses and doctors. In Tripoli, the vice-foreign minister, Khaled Kaim, however, disputed the claims of the insurgents, and said government forces controlled the city indeed. City Zaouïa was still subject to intense fighting in the early evening.
Forces loyal to the regime have indeed started the day in an offensive to regain control of this town located 50 km west of Tripoli. About two thousand rebels have been pushed towards the central square. "The place is safe but (government forces) attack us from the east and west. We will fight until the end.
They try to enter the city to resume," said a spokesman of the insurrection, Youssef Chagan. "This city is under siege, she was surrounded by the army," affirmed the Sky News reporter Alex Crawford. Shortly before, Libyan television announced that the city had been retaken by Colonel Gaddafi and the "leader of the terrorist group" in the city, Darbouka Hussein and his mate had been killed.
So the situation remained uncertain, as the toll of the clashes. The television channel Al Arabiya spoke of at least thirteen people killed, while Al-Jazeera referred more than fifty and three hundred wounded. A large explosion has also destroyed a weapons depot near Benghazi, a stronghold of the insurgency in the east, said a spokesman for the opposition.
The city hospitals were documenting Friday night at least seventeen killed and twenty-six wounded. On the Green Square in the center of the city, hundreds of pro-Gaddafi expressed their support to the "Guide of the Revolution." Soon after, clashes broke out between small groups of demonstrators pro and anti-Gaddafi.
Residents of Tripoli to the BBC describing the situation in the capital: "Many people have been arrested and we do not know where they are taken. It's very scary. The place of the center is filled with foreigners, recruited by Gaddafi . They control the situation at this time. "By issuing an" Orange Notice "to alert on" events that may constitute a threat to public safety, "Interpol does not demand the arrest of these sixteen Libyans considered as involved "in planning attacks, including aerial bombardments on civilian populations," but provides information about them.
"Every journalist out into the street without permission will be arrested. This is a special day. Terrorist elements want to provoke violence and the presence of journalists can only aggravate this situation, "he said in the morning, a spokesman for the government to justify the measure.
In total, over 172 000 people crossed the borders of Libya to Tunisia and Egypt during the past week, the UN says. Italy fear a massive influx of immigrants. It was announced Friday to be ready to mobilize "nearly $ 1 billion" for developing countries of the south shore of the Mediterranean.
The World. com 
The violent clashes, marked by intense bombing and artillery fire, have resulted in "many casualties", witnesses and doctors. In Tripoli, the vice-foreign minister, Khaled Kaim, however, disputed the claims of the insurgents, and said government forces controlled the city indeed. City Zaouïa was still subject to intense fighting in the early evening.
Forces loyal to the regime have indeed started the day in an offensive to regain control of this town located 50 km west of Tripoli. About two thousand rebels have been pushed towards the central square. "The place is safe but (government forces) attack us from the east and west. We will fight until the end.
They try to enter the city to resume," said a spokesman of the insurrection, Youssef Chagan. "This city is under siege, she was surrounded by the army," affirmed the Sky News reporter Alex Crawford. Shortly before, Libyan television announced that the city had been retaken by Colonel Gaddafi and the "leader of the terrorist group" in the city, Darbouka Hussein and his mate had been killed.
So the situation remained uncertain, as the toll of the clashes. The television channel Al Arabiya spoke of at least thirteen people killed, while Al-Jazeera referred more than fifty and three hundred wounded. A large explosion has also destroyed a weapons depot near Benghazi, a stronghold of the insurgency in the east, said a spokesman for the opposition.
The city hospitals were documenting Friday night at least seventeen killed and twenty-six wounded. On the Green Square in the center of the city, hundreds of pro-Gaddafi expressed their support to the "Guide of the Revolution." Soon after, clashes broke out between small groups of demonstrators pro and anti-Gaddafi.
Residents of Tripoli to the BBC describing the situation in the capital: "Many people have been arrested and we do not know where they are taken. It's very scary. The place of the center is filled with foreigners, recruited by Gaddafi . They control the situation at this time. "By issuing an" Orange Notice "to alert on" events that may constitute a threat to public safety, "Interpol does not demand the arrest of these sixteen Libyans considered as involved "in planning attacks, including aerial bombardments on civilian populations," but provides information about them.
"Every journalist out into the street without permission will be arrested. This is a special day. Terrorist elements want to provoke violence and the presence of journalists can only aggravate this situation, "he said in the morning, a spokesman for the government to justify the measure.
In total, over 172 000 people crossed the borders of Libya to Tunisia and Egypt during the past week, the UN says. Italy fear a massive influx of immigrants. It was announced Friday to be ready to mobilize "nearly $ 1 billion" for developing countries of the south shore of the Mediterranean.
The World. com
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