The ICC has decided to open an investigation into crimes against humanity committed in Libya since January 15 last year. " This was announced during a press conference in The Hague, the Attorney General of the Court, Luis Moreno Ocampo. Among the names of suspects, there would be also those of Muammar Gaddafi, and three of her children, Seifulislam, Khamis and Mutasim.
Among the leaders, including Foreign Minister Musa Kusa. A new air raid on Marsa el Brega, the Libyan oil center yesterday in the middle of a battle between rebels and militias loyal to Muammar Gaddafi. A witness reported that the city of Cyrenaica at least one bomb was dropped: "I heard the noise of the plane, then the explosion and then I saw the crater," said Mohammed Shibli.
The bomb would have fallen close to the petroleum engineering faculty, about 2 km from the oil terminal. "There was an air raid about an hour and a half ago," said another witness, Mohammed Awadh, "I saw with my own eyes." Meanwhile, according to military sources, about four hundred U.S.
Marines arrived in the U.S. base in Souda Bay, Crete, ready to embark on board the warships USS Ponce and USS Kearsage crossing the Mediterranean. This is done as part of a repositioning of the U.S. fleet "linked to the Libyan state." The Kearsage Ponce and should dock in the next few hours at Souda Bay.
In the Mediterranean are expected, according to unconfirmed sources, a U.S. submarine and a torpedo boat that should be followed by two other units in the coming weeks. The Secretary to the State Department Philip Gordon, who met in Athens with Foreign Minister Dimitri Droutsas nevertheless ruled that it is preparing a military operation against Libya.
Gordon said that "we are simply preparing to cope with all eventualities." Souda Bay is a strategic naval base of NATO and is also home to a Greek air base which is part of the U.S. Naval Support Activity. It 'clear that the strategy of the continuous threat of Gaddafi, while the rebels are moving en masse to the city in the east, to strengthen their positions in anticipation of a new counter-offensive of the troops of Colonel.
The dictator has promised yesterday that there will be thousands of deaths in the case of a Western military intervention in Libya in the east of the country, now controlled by rebels, meanwhile, has sent troops and fighter jets. New air strikes this morning there are also the city of Ajdabiya, in Cyrenaica, which yesterday with Brega has managed to resist the attacks carried out by brigades loyal to the Libyan leader.
The official toll of the fighting of yesterday was at least 12 deaths. From Europe, meanwhile, there's concrete measures against the regime: it is now operating the freezing of assets of the six major components of the Gaddafi family, and 20 close associates of the Libyan regime. The EU regulation ordering the freezing of all funds and economic resources of these 26 people was published today in the EU Official Journal and entered into force immediately.
According to Al Jazeera, Gadhafi would be conducive to the peace plan proposed by Hugo Chavez. During a telephone conversation yesterday between the two leaders, the Venezuelan president has proposed creating an international mission made up of friendly countries to mediate between the Libyan and rebel leaders.
Already on Monday the head of Venezuelan state had launched the idea of creating an international peacekeeping mission made up of many friendly countries, which can exert a mediating role between the Libyan colonel and insurgents, condemned all military action, which, according to him, would be "a catastrophe".
Among the leaders, including Foreign Minister Musa Kusa. A new air raid on Marsa el Brega, the Libyan oil center yesterday in the middle of a battle between rebels and militias loyal to Muammar Gaddafi. A witness reported that the city of Cyrenaica at least one bomb was dropped: "I heard the noise of the plane, then the explosion and then I saw the crater," said Mohammed Shibli.
The bomb would have fallen close to the petroleum engineering faculty, about 2 km from the oil terminal. "There was an air raid about an hour and a half ago," said another witness, Mohammed Awadh, "I saw with my own eyes." Meanwhile, according to military sources, about four hundred U.S.
Marines arrived in the U.S. base in Souda Bay, Crete, ready to embark on board the warships USS Ponce and USS Kearsage crossing the Mediterranean. This is done as part of a repositioning of the U.S. fleet "linked to the Libyan state." The Kearsage Ponce and should dock in the next few hours at Souda Bay.
In the Mediterranean are expected, according to unconfirmed sources, a U.S. submarine and a torpedo boat that should be followed by two other units in the coming weeks. The Secretary to the State Department Philip Gordon, who met in Athens with Foreign Minister Dimitri Droutsas nevertheless ruled that it is preparing a military operation against Libya.
Gordon said that "we are simply preparing to cope with all eventualities." Souda Bay is a strategic naval base of NATO and is also home to a Greek air base which is part of the U.S. Naval Support Activity. It 'clear that the strategy of the continuous threat of Gaddafi, while the rebels are moving en masse to the city in the east, to strengthen their positions in anticipation of a new counter-offensive of the troops of Colonel.
The dictator has promised yesterday that there will be thousands of deaths in the case of a Western military intervention in Libya in the east of the country, now controlled by rebels, meanwhile, has sent troops and fighter jets. New air strikes this morning there are also the city of Ajdabiya, in Cyrenaica, which yesterday with Brega has managed to resist the attacks carried out by brigades loyal to the Libyan leader.
The official toll of the fighting of yesterday was at least 12 deaths. From Europe, meanwhile, there's concrete measures against the regime: it is now operating the freezing of assets of the six major components of the Gaddafi family, and 20 close associates of the Libyan regime. The EU regulation ordering the freezing of all funds and economic resources of these 26 people was published today in the EU Official Journal and entered into force immediately.
According to Al Jazeera, Gadhafi would be conducive to the peace plan proposed by Hugo Chavez. During a telephone conversation yesterday between the two leaders, the Venezuelan president has proposed creating an international mission made up of friendly countries to mediate between the Libyan and rebel leaders.
Already on Monday the head of Venezuelan state had launched the idea of creating an international peacekeeping mission made up of many friendly countries, which can exert a mediating role between the Libyan colonel and insurgents, condemned all military action, which, according to him, would be "a catastrophe".
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