TRIPOLI - The shield of the Atlantic Alliance will be there, "to protect civilians and enforce the no-fly zone." The announcement of turkish foreign minister, Akhmed Davotoglu who had spoken command of the Alliance from Monday or Tuesday has been confirmed, but only in part, by the Secretary General of NATO Rasmussen.
"We will protect civilians," he said after the Council Atalanti, "and will impose the no-fly zone." Then, with CNN, the same Rasmussen said that NATO will have the operation guide for the no-fly zone within a couple of days. "Unified guidance on problems therefore remain open. A consensus is still considering that ' Atlantic Alliance to assume "greater responsibility." Rasmussen has done so clearly given to understand that there are some aspects of the transaction (the bombing of military targets on the ground, for example) that will remain for now in the hands of the current coalition.
Although 'Alliance does not mean you can assume a larger role "shortly." "The air raids are having success and will continue," he assured in the morning, French Foreign Minister, Alain Juppe before the ambassadors of the Alliance meet in Brussels , after yet another fruitless round of negotiations to establish a command structure of operations.
It was especially France to insist on leaving the political control of Odyssey Dawn in the hands of the international coalition (a sort of 'control room' policy). Now that the command goes to the Netherlands also participate in NATO operations in order to impose an air exclusion zone on Libya.
And the United States have indicated that their will be a "supporting role" in the second phase of the operation in Libya and will provide more hunting for the raid, said White House spokesman Jay Carney: "The United States will continue to have a role but it will be a support role and assistance, "he explained.
Meanwhile, the fighters Western neutralized after Gaddafi's air defenses, pounded all day long Libyan military targets but failed to prevent the tanks were part of Colonel in the city of Misurata, where fierce fighting street by street and counted 109 dead and 1,300 injured, according to doctors at the local hospital.
The situation has improved in the evening, when some local residents have reported that after the air raids today's coalition artillery and tank forces loyal to the Rais have stopped firing. The fifth night of the raid on Libya has left intact the military stronghold of the Colonel. At midday it was learned that a Libyan jet, a single-engine manufacturing Yugoslav Galeb G2, was destroyed by a French Rafale fighters immediately after landing at Misurata.
The first reports spoke of killing the Libyan aircraft in flight, but a French military spokesman, Col. Thierry Burkhard, said that the plane was hit by a ground-air missile shortly after landing in Misurata. This is the first airplane hit the imposition of the no-fly zones. Then in the evening resumed the bombing of the Libyan capital on coalition and anti-aircraft came into action.
The state television reported air strikes also allied to al-Jamil, in Tripoli. "The city of Al Jamil has been attacked and colonialist crusader, announced on TV. In the evening, although you have returned to Tripoli to hear loud explosions followed by bursts of flak. According to the pan-Arab satellite television Al Arabiya, the fighters of the coalition attacked the barracks again Bab Al Azizi, where the bunker Gaddafi.
The night had been bombed a military base in gheddafiani Tajoura, on the eastern outskirts of the capital. Tripoli, meanwhile, continues to bury its dead. Since the beginning of the bombing there was the second funeral of the victims of air raids conducted by the coalition. At least 30 coffins that have been brought to the cemetery of the Martyrs on the coastal road towards al-Tajura.
Over a thousand people came to pay homage and shouting slogans against Obama and Sarkozy. The Libyan government has complained that under the bombs of the coalition have been killed so far center people in the country. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, moreover, said that the Tripoli Government has been warned that "additional measures that go beyond Resolution 1973" could be adopted by the Security Council of the United Nations against Libya's Muammar Gaddafi if the government does not follow the demands of the international community.
What the dictator of Baghdad does not seem willing to do. The Libyan capital remains under the bombs, and as EU leaders gathered in Brussels to discuss whether to proceed to a full oil embargo - with measures of trade restrictions that go beyond what is provided by the UN and implemented by the EU - the TV Libyan State, Al Jamahiriya, aired the news that targets "military and civilians" in Tripoli were hit at dawn today by the forces of the international coalition.
The television showed pictures of injured people admitted to hospital in the capital. Some officials have also led to the Reuters cameraman to a hospital where they were shown the bodies of 18 men, some charred and unrecognizable, saying they were killed by bombing civilians and military.
These are the first foreign reporters who were shown the victims of the bombing, which the Libyans would be dozens of civilians. But there are no official medical confirmation. On the ground meanwhile Gaddafi has intensified its offensive against the insurgents. News from struggling to get measured because the third largest city in Libya, which is 200 kilometers from the capital, it is virtually isolated.
Covered by darkness, the tanks have entered the Gaddafi in the city and pounded the area near the hospital. "The situation is very serious," said a doctor to measure, before it went down the line. To bring terror and death are the snipers. The same medical sources reported that in a week of fighting between pro-Gaddafi to insurgent forces in the city 109 people have died and 1,300 others were injured.
The rebels also announced that it has killed 30 snipers in the city fought the system. The rebels announced that they have regained control of the port of Misurata, before which stationed two warships and a few boats. In the port area remained blocked and thousands of Egyptian workers in sub-Saharan Africa who sought an escape by sea.
Things going well for the civilian population of Zintan, whose suburban loyalists are massing troops and tanks. For Agedabia, surrounded by the troops of Colonel, was very critical situation of hospitals, now without food, medicine and electricity, but the rebels are fighting to regain the city that is on the way to Benghazi.
Beny Colonel Ahmed, spokesman of the revolutionary army, said he had asked the international coalition anti-tank weapons and ammunition to level the differences in weaponry and troops Gaddafi. "We are facing T-72 and T-92 and that is why we need anti-tank weapons," he said. In Tripoli, however, the spokesman of the regime, Ibrahim Moussa, has denounced the death of "a hundred civilians" under the bombs of the international coalition.
On possible civilian casualties caused by the Allies today, there were conflicting statements from the U.S.: the U.S. General Carter Ham, head of the Africa Command, said today that he could not exclude Sigonella. Pentagon spokesman William Gortney said instead that it had no reports of civilian casualties. 
"We will protect civilians," he said after the Council Atalanti, "and will impose the no-fly zone." Then, with CNN, the same Rasmussen said that NATO will have the operation guide for the no-fly zone within a couple of days. "Unified guidance on problems therefore remain open. A consensus is still considering that ' Atlantic Alliance to assume "greater responsibility." Rasmussen has done so clearly given to understand that there are some aspects of the transaction (the bombing of military targets on the ground, for example) that will remain for now in the hands of the current coalition.
Although 'Alliance does not mean you can assume a larger role "shortly." "The air raids are having success and will continue," he assured in the morning, French Foreign Minister, Alain Juppe before the ambassadors of the Alliance meet in Brussels , after yet another fruitless round of negotiations to establish a command structure of operations.
It was especially France to insist on leaving the political control of Odyssey Dawn in the hands of the international coalition (a sort of 'control room' policy). Now that the command goes to the Netherlands also participate in NATO operations in order to impose an air exclusion zone on Libya.
And the United States have indicated that their will be a "supporting role" in the second phase of the operation in Libya and will provide more hunting for the raid, said White House spokesman Jay Carney: "The United States will continue to have a role but it will be a support role and assistance, "he explained.
Meanwhile, the fighters Western neutralized after Gaddafi's air defenses, pounded all day long Libyan military targets but failed to prevent the tanks were part of Colonel in the city of Misurata, where fierce fighting street by street and counted 109 dead and 1,300 injured, according to doctors at the local hospital.
The situation has improved in the evening, when some local residents have reported that after the air raids today's coalition artillery and tank forces loyal to the Rais have stopped firing. The fifth night of the raid on Libya has left intact the military stronghold of the Colonel. At midday it was learned that a Libyan jet, a single-engine manufacturing Yugoslav Galeb G2, was destroyed by a French Rafale fighters immediately after landing at Misurata.
The first reports spoke of killing the Libyan aircraft in flight, but a French military spokesman, Col. Thierry Burkhard, said that the plane was hit by a ground-air missile shortly after landing in Misurata. This is the first airplane hit the imposition of the no-fly zones. Then in the evening resumed the bombing of the Libyan capital on coalition and anti-aircraft came into action.
The state television reported air strikes also allied to al-Jamil, in Tripoli. "The city of Al Jamil has been attacked and colonialist crusader, announced on TV. In the evening, although you have returned to Tripoli to hear loud explosions followed by bursts of flak. According to the pan-Arab satellite television Al Arabiya, the fighters of the coalition attacked the barracks again Bab Al Azizi, where the bunker Gaddafi.
The night had been bombed a military base in gheddafiani Tajoura, on the eastern outskirts of the capital. Tripoli, meanwhile, continues to bury its dead. Since the beginning of the bombing there was the second funeral of the victims of air raids conducted by the coalition. At least 30 coffins that have been brought to the cemetery of the Martyrs on the coastal road towards al-Tajura.
Over a thousand people came to pay homage and shouting slogans against Obama and Sarkozy. The Libyan government has complained that under the bombs of the coalition have been killed so far center people in the country. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, moreover, said that the Tripoli Government has been warned that "additional measures that go beyond Resolution 1973" could be adopted by the Security Council of the United Nations against Libya's Muammar Gaddafi if the government does not follow the demands of the international community.
What the dictator of Baghdad does not seem willing to do. The Libyan capital remains under the bombs, and as EU leaders gathered in Brussels to discuss whether to proceed to a full oil embargo - with measures of trade restrictions that go beyond what is provided by the UN and implemented by the EU - the TV Libyan State, Al Jamahiriya, aired the news that targets "military and civilians" in Tripoli were hit at dawn today by the forces of the international coalition.
The television showed pictures of injured people admitted to hospital in the capital. Some officials have also led to the Reuters cameraman to a hospital where they were shown the bodies of 18 men, some charred and unrecognizable, saying they were killed by bombing civilians and military.
These are the first foreign reporters who were shown the victims of the bombing, which the Libyans would be dozens of civilians. But there are no official medical confirmation. On the ground meanwhile Gaddafi has intensified its offensive against the insurgents. News from struggling to get measured because the third largest city in Libya, which is 200 kilometers from the capital, it is virtually isolated.
Covered by darkness, the tanks have entered the Gaddafi in the city and pounded the area near the hospital. "The situation is very serious," said a doctor to measure, before it went down the line. To bring terror and death are the snipers. The same medical sources reported that in a week of fighting between pro-Gaddafi to insurgent forces in the city 109 people have died and 1,300 others were injured.
The rebels also announced that it has killed 30 snipers in the city fought the system. The rebels announced that they have regained control of the port of Misurata, before which stationed two warships and a few boats. In the port area remained blocked and thousands of Egyptian workers in sub-Saharan Africa who sought an escape by sea.
Things going well for the civilian population of Zintan, whose suburban loyalists are massing troops and tanks. For Agedabia, surrounded by the troops of Colonel, was very critical situation of hospitals, now without food, medicine and electricity, but the rebels are fighting to regain the city that is on the way to Benghazi.
Beny Colonel Ahmed, spokesman of the revolutionary army, said he had asked the international coalition anti-tank weapons and ammunition to level the differences in weaponry and troops Gaddafi. "We are facing T-72 and T-92 and that is why we need anti-tank weapons," he said. In Tripoli, however, the spokesman of the regime, Ibrahim Moussa, has denounced the death of "a hundred civilians" under the bombs of the international coalition.
On possible civilian casualties caused by the Allies today, there were conflicting statements from the U.S.: the U.S. General Carter Ham, head of the Africa Command, said today that he could not exclude Sigonella. Pentagon spokesman William Gortney said instead that it had no reports of civilian casualties.
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