Colonel Muammar Gadhafi .- promised Wednesday to fight back if the international community imposes a no-fly zone over Libya and harassed by air and land to the rebel forces of Ras Lanuf (east), which burned oil wells and facilities. Gadhafi and the National Transitional Council (CNT) that formed as parallel power in Benghazi (thousand km east of Tripoli) also waging a diplomatic war with the sending of emissaries to various cities before vital meetings of NATO and the European Union (EU) in Brussels, and the Arab League in Cairo to discuss the Libyan issue.
The scheme offered a reward of nearly half a million dollars for the capture of the NLC president, Mustafa Abdeljalil, to make clear that it is willing to build any kind of bridge to Benghazi. The war is also in the press, state television said Gadhafi's supporters staged "massive demonstrations" in Zauiya (west), while the opposition said that this town was in their hands, but was subject to violent attack which did not distinguish combatants from civilians.
After the outbreak of the rebellion on Feb. 15, insurgents took control of the oil and various enclaves of the West, but Ghadafi, in power since 1969, maintained its authority in the region of Tripoli and seemed to catch up. The battle raged in Ras Lanuf and its vicinity, which was captured on Friday by opponents.
The insurgents tried to advance their lines with the support of about 50 rockets fire, but were forced to retreat back to Ras Lanuf when Gadhafi's men replied with ten shells. An aircraft also bombed an area a mile of a refinery on the outskirts of the city as well as points on the Mediterranean coast.
Earlier, Ras Lanuf had been shaken by a series of explosions that caused a fire on the refinery giant flares Ace Cider. CNT spokesman in Benghazi, Abdelhafez Ghoqa said that "several oil wells were shelled, and refineries" in the region of Ras Lanuf. Ghoqa said, however, that the revolutionaries were able to move forward and seize back Jawad Bin (50 km west), from which they were expelled on Sunday.
West of Tripoli, the city of Zenten remains in the hands of the opposition, but is surrounded by men of Gadhafi, said a witness. Libya collapsed after the outbreak of the rebellion on 15 February in a civil war that left hundreds dead and caused the exodus of some 200 thousand people. According to CNT, 400 people were killed in just the Gadhafi attacks in the east.
France and the United Kingdom have been working for days on a draft Security Council resolution to impose UN no-fly zone, which prevents the Libyan aviation bombarding the population. U.S. President Barack Obama, is subjected by his side to a strong domestic pressure to provide military support to the rebellion.
Gadhafi said in an interview with Turkish television TRT that the imposition of an air exclusion zone will allow the Libyans "realize what the true intentions (of powers) over the oil" and said it believes that the lead to "bear arms" to defend their country. The issue of no-fly zone focus much of the discussions of the meetings of NATO and the EU on Thursday and Friday in Brussels and on Saturday the Arab League in Cairo.
Gadhafi just sent emissaries to the Egyptian capital and Portugal, where he was received by the chancellor in a meeting arranged with the head of European diplomacy, Catherine Ashton, the ministry said in Lisbon. According to the Italian government, Tripoli also sent an envoy to Brussels.
The Swiss president, Micheline Calmy-Rey, received on Wednesday a representative of the CNT and the French head of state, Nicolas Sarkozy, will host two on Thursday. The EP called on the EU to recognize the body that brings together the opposing forces. The Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC)-comprising 57 Muslim countries, and the Gulf Arab monarchies and favored the establishment of a no-fly zone.
ALBA countries, a bloc led latinoamerican antiliberal Cuba and Venezuela, seeking to organize a mediation that leads to peace, taking into account the Libyans themselves say, not what they try to impose from the outside, "he said in Quito Ecuador's Deputy Foreign Minister, Kintto Lucas.
Libyan civil war and political and social unrest in the Middle East led to a barrel of oil above $ 100 for the first time in two years. A barrel of West Texas Intermediate closed Wednesday at 104.38 dollars, down 64 cents. But Brent North Sea, more sensitive to shocks in the Middle East, gained 2.56 dollars to 115.62 dollars.
Libya currently produces 500 000 barrels of oil a day, instead of the 1.6 million produced before the start of popular uprising, announced Wednesday Shukri Ghanem, chairman of the national oil company of the North African country. 
The scheme offered a reward of nearly half a million dollars for the capture of the NLC president, Mustafa Abdeljalil, to make clear that it is willing to build any kind of bridge to Benghazi. The war is also in the press, state television said Gadhafi's supporters staged "massive demonstrations" in Zauiya (west), while the opposition said that this town was in their hands, but was subject to violent attack which did not distinguish combatants from civilians.
After the outbreak of the rebellion on Feb. 15, insurgents took control of the oil and various enclaves of the West, but Ghadafi, in power since 1969, maintained its authority in the region of Tripoli and seemed to catch up. The battle raged in Ras Lanuf and its vicinity, which was captured on Friday by opponents.
The insurgents tried to advance their lines with the support of about 50 rockets fire, but were forced to retreat back to Ras Lanuf when Gadhafi's men replied with ten shells. An aircraft also bombed an area a mile of a refinery on the outskirts of the city as well as points on the Mediterranean coast.
Earlier, Ras Lanuf had been shaken by a series of explosions that caused a fire on the refinery giant flares Ace Cider. CNT spokesman in Benghazi, Abdelhafez Ghoqa said that "several oil wells were shelled, and refineries" in the region of Ras Lanuf. Ghoqa said, however, that the revolutionaries were able to move forward and seize back Jawad Bin (50 km west), from which they were expelled on Sunday.
West of Tripoli, the city of Zenten remains in the hands of the opposition, but is surrounded by men of Gadhafi, said a witness. Libya collapsed after the outbreak of the rebellion on 15 February in a civil war that left hundreds dead and caused the exodus of some 200 thousand people. According to CNT, 400 people were killed in just the Gadhafi attacks in the east.
France and the United Kingdom have been working for days on a draft Security Council resolution to impose UN no-fly zone, which prevents the Libyan aviation bombarding the population. U.S. President Barack Obama, is subjected by his side to a strong domestic pressure to provide military support to the rebellion.
Gadhafi said in an interview with Turkish television TRT that the imposition of an air exclusion zone will allow the Libyans "realize what the true intentions (of powers) over the oil" and said it believes that the lead to "bear arms" to defend their country. The issue of no-fly zone focus much of the discussions of the meetings of NATO and the EU on Thursday and Friday in Brussels and on Saturday the Arab League in Cairo.
Gadhafi just sent emissaries to the Egyptian capital and Portugal, where he was received by the chancellor in a meeting arranged with the head of European diplomacy, Catherine Ashton, the ministry said in Lisbon. According to the Italian government, Tripoli also sent an envoy to Brussels.
The Swiss president, Micheline Calmy-Rey, received on Wednesday a representative of the CNT and the French head of state, Nicolas Sarkozy, will host two on Thursday. The EP called on the EU to recognize the body that brings together the opposing forces. The Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC)-comprising 57 Muslim countries, and the Gulf Arab monarchies and favored the establishment of a no-fly zone.
ALBA countries, a bloc led latinoamerican antiliberal Cuba and Venezuela, seeking to organize a mediation that leads to peace, taking into account the Libyans themselves say, not what they try to impose from the outside, "he said in Quito Ecuador's Deputy Foreign Minister, Kintto Lucas.
Libyan civil war and political and social unrest in the Middle East led to a barrel of oil above $ 100 for the first time in two years. A barrel of West Texas Intermediate closed Wednesday at 104.38 dollars, down 64 cents. But Brent North Sea, more sensitive to shocks in the Middle East, gained 2.56 dollars to 115.62 dollars.
Libya currently produces 500 000 barrels of oil a day, instead of the 1.6 million produced before the start of popular uprising, announced Wednesday Shukri Ghanem, chairman of the national oil company of the North African country.
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