Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Gaddafi begins the assault on the rebel capital

The worst predictions of the rebels against Libya Muammar Gadadi have met this morning. Dictator warplanes have begun early in the bombing of Benghazi, the second largest city in the country and the stronghold of the rebels, as announced by the rebel Col. Faradje the Feyturi. The rebel command, contacted by the Qatari Al-Jazeera network, has ensured that the bombs fell on the city's airport, but has not specified whether if there were casualties or damage.

The response from the rebels, according to this source, was strong and forced the aircraft Gaddafi to "take flight." To reinforce the offensive on the ground, Gaddafi's son and a candidate to succeed him, Saif Islam, since Tripoli announced that the troops of the regime are closer to Benghazi and that "in the next 48 hours" enter the city .

It has also issued a warning to Western powers, to ensure that any decision they make "late", in reference to debate within the UN on the imposition of a no-fly zone. Aware that the Benghazi making can be a knockout against the revolution, the Libyan Government has made in recent hours call through the public television for all forces fighting the rebels in the east of the country marc regroup and to conquer the stronghold of Benghazi.

In Misrata, halfway between Tripoli and Sirte, the birthplace of the dictator, Gaddafi's troops are working hard to break the resistance of the rebels. Witnesses say the siege cited by the city remains under rebel control, but is suffering from the assault of tanks and artillery of the Libyan Army.

As a resident, government troops bombarded "from three positions" and are "using heavy weapons including tanks and artillery, but have not yet made it into the city. Another neighbor has stated that the attack began about seven o'clock in the morning (one hour less in Spain). A local doctor, talk with, has ensured that at least five people were killed and 11 others were injured in the fighting.

The rebels holed up in the coastal city 200 kilometers east of Tripoli would have slowed the ground offensive and captured several enemy tanks. "The fighters have defeated the forces attacking from Gaddafi sure and east of the city", has secured a Misrata neighbor, who added that the fighting continues.

"Crush your enemies" Confusion dominates the landscape of war in Libya. But one certainty emerges from the contradictory news spread Gaddafi's dictatorship and the Libyan National Council, the Government of the rebels based in Benghazi, artillery, aircraft and vessels of the Armed Forces of the tyrant bombarded every day that passes more near the capital of the revolt.

The insurgent leadership insisted that the city of Ajdabiya, the south gate of Benghazi, was still in his possession, while state television claimed that he had been "cleared of terrorists" after suffering a severe punishment. Around the strategic Ajdabiya, well connected to the Egyptian border, the fighting was lavished all day.

Whatever happened, the chaotic commanders of rebel commandos gave the battle as lost. The images broadcast by Libyan television reported that many Libyans were related to Gaddafi took to the streets of Tripoli to celebrate the victory over the rebels, reports Alvaro de Cózar. If the capital seemed a ghost town last night, a very different picture was seen in Green Square.

There he gathered supporters of the Libyan leader with fireworks, and portraits of its leader. Notice of the big party when Benghazi, a stronghold of revolutionary, back under control of Gadhafi troops. Something to take for granted. Gaddafi appeared again last night in the Libyan state television.

"We are determined to crush our enemies," said hit. "We are willing to preserve the unity of Libya even with the price of our lives," he said. "The settlers will be defeated, America will be defeated, the United Kingdom will be defeated." A speech that occurred in the same moment that was known a draft Security Council UN that raises the possibility of adopting a no-fly zone in Libya.

In another scenario, before a crowd of supporters in the military complex of Bab al Azizia, in the center of Tripoli, Gadhafi has called this evening to his people to rise up in arms for a possible Western military intervention, thus answering the possibility that the meeting scheduled for today at the UN flight ban on Libyan aircraft.

"Now France lifts his head and says it will attack Libya", "Attack on Libya? We will be that I will attack you. I attack in Algeria, in Vietnam. You want to attack us? Come and try it," he said defiantly. France has been one of the countries that are most pressing to the G-8 meeting yesterday in Paris, and the other 14 members of the Security Council of the UN to take such action.

The flurry of statements from both sides has no end. General Abdelfatah Yunis, narrow excamarada of Colonel from the time when this was done with the reins of the country and now appointed head of the rebel forces, said he has 8,000 men of reinforcement, including 3,000 special forces who have defected from Gaddafi loyalists rows.

And from the east of the country yesterday added another uniformed first used two Mig fighter abandoned by the Air Force after leaving stampede pilots and officers in the early days of the revolt. Attacked, said the National Council, a warship in the Mediterranean. But their morale is going down, and squeezing the civil unrest in Cyrenaica.

The fear that the dictator commits an outrage binds the fear of fifth columnists. Tobruk Some locals say they are crazy, others are stoned. But a few dozen men watched yesterday surprised how roamed the center of this city a couple of guys, wearing green ribbons on the front, the color of the revolution of the dictator that stains the official buildings, which screamed for Gaddafi.

The tyrant has offered an amnesty to insurgents who lay down their weapons, but these do not include the surrender as an alternative. I can not believe the promise of a leader who has made a macabre history. For days, military spokesmen have been warning that the rebels killed against the author of the Green Paper.

Credible. "We are prepared to deliver a million weapons, or two, or three million. And another Vietnam begins. I do not care at all," Kadhafi said in one of his belligerent speeches, on 2 March. A neighbor of Zauara, near the border with Tunisia, claimed that soldiers and henchmen have developed lists of the autocrat to capture insurgents in the city.

Searched house by house. The National Council has no doubt that the dictator will not write the script for the future of the Arab country. "Russians," says a spokesman, "they could not govern Afghanistan, the United States could not do in Vietnam. Qaddafi in Libya can not." For the moment, the situation does not seem to go for a sudden turnaround, the insurgents fall back helplessly.

Continue to demand the implementation of a no-fly zone, an option that, if the measure could be resurrected, would require weeks to be applied. As happened in Iraq in the nineties, is no guarantee of success, even in a period of months. Neither trade sanctions, the freezing of Libyan sovereign funds, managed by Gaddafi and his entourage ", the prohibition of travel abroad for the dictator and his collaborators take effect shortly.

As much as strive Libyan foreign rulers remind the litany of bombings, assassinations of their citizens, committed outside world during his 41 years in office.

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