Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Libya: no option is ruled out, even military intervention

Tuesday, March 1 in the morning, after 14 days of the uprising, Muammar Qaddafi and his forces lost control as Tripoli and its region. According to European Commissioner for Energy, Gunther Oettinger, major Libyan oil fields are now "under the control of tribes and interim forces who returned to power." The opposition has announced the imminent resumption of oil exports from the east, it controls.

Information obtained from witnesses about airstrikes forces loyal to Qadhafi were denied by the Libyan authorities. These days, flights suspected of being linked to arms trafficking between Belarus and Libya have been identified by the International Institute for Peace Research in Stockholm.

Hillary Clinton claimed on Monday that are prepared "additional measures for the Qaddafi government accountable, to provide humanitarian assistance and support for the Libyan people in their quest for a transition to democracy." The United States will send two teams of humanitarian border with Libya, Tunisia and Egypt, "she announced, while the International Red Cross has demanded immediate access to the west of Libya.

Following a visit to the Holocaust Museum in Washington, the United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has held that the international community was again "testing" 70 years after the atrocities Nazi, denouncing the attitude of power in Libya and Ivory Coast. Mr. Ban had met earlier in the day U.S.

President Barack Obama to the White House. But Monday night Misrata, forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi fired on passersby, killing at least two dead and one seriously injured. In Tripoli, checkpoints were set up in and around the capital by militant pro-Gaddafi. The bread and gasoline were rationed, according to a person.

Gaddafi, who has vowed to survive the uprising has accused Al-Qaeda to convince young Libyans in possession of weapons. He also accused Western countries to abandon his government in the middle of his fight against "terrorists", adding that he felt betrayed by the United States: "I am surprised, as we are allied to the West to fight al-Qaida, he abandons us now that we are fighting terrorists.

(...) Maybe they want to [Westerners] occupy Libya? " During his interview by Christiane Amanpour, Gaddafi said that President Barack Obama was a "good man" but he seemed ill informed about the situation in Libya. "The statements I heard from him must come from someone else. America is not the policeman of the world.

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