Sunday, March 27, 2011

Libyan rebels take the oil city of Ras Lanuf

Libyan rebel forces have taken the oil city of Ras Lanuf in quick counteroffensive launched yesterday with the recovery of the strategic Ajdabiya and continued today with the oil port of Brega, according to sources have assured the opposition. The thrust of the insurgents has already surpassed and reached Ras Lanuf Jawad Bin, and is pushing back the troops of the regime to Sirte, Gaddafi's hometown.

The aviation support of the international coalition has supported the march of opponents of the tyrant, which continue into the territory of the heart of the government side. The recovery of the three cities is a major victory for the insurgents since the alliance launched the operation in support on 19 March.

The regime has accused the Alliance of Libya which is to create a civil war. Some men come Gaddafi government have begun to leave the tyrant, according to U.S. diplomacy. After the capture of Ras Lanuf, the rebels have come to Bin Jawad, a coastal town which has also come under his command.

Thus, the insurgents have completed the reconquest of all of this oil enclaves. Ras Lanuf making, with major petrochemical facilities, is a further blow to what looks like a triumphal march of the rebel forces to the west. THE CITY fell into the hands of Libyan troops on 11 March. Located 370 km west of Benghazi in eastern rebel stronghold, and 210 miles of Ajdabiya, strategic crossroads recovered by the rebels yesterday, Ras Lanuf is a crucial area that has important oil and gas facilities.

Gaddafi's forces, meanwhile, had resumed the bombing on Sunday Misrata, city in the west of the country controlled by the rebels but had dug in the vicinity of those loyal to the Allied offensive on Saturday. On the coalition's offensive against the regime, NATO will take command of operations in the coming days, has expressed his desire to limit the bombing to minimize civilian casualties.

Resignations in the environment While Gadhafi regime's forces are retreating towards Sirte, U.S. diplomacy has said that some members of Gaddafi's government have begun to leave. Resignations are occurring within the Libyan power to the series of air strikes launched by the international coalition that has held back the troops of the tyrant, have announced today Hillary Clinton and Robert Gates, leaders respectively of diplomacy and U.S.

defense, reports France Presse. Gates also added that the situation threatens to destabilize Libya to Tunisia and Egypt, and could respond at risk the success of the revolutions in the two neighboring countries. Gaddafi's regime acknowledged yesterday that air strikes forced the armed forces to withdraw and accused of bias in the international community.

"This is the goal of the coalition is not to protect civilians because it is fighting directly against the armed forces [Libya]," said Deputy Foreign Minister yesterday, Khaled Kaim. "They are trying to force the country to the brink of civil war." Jawad bin had been the foremost position of the rebels in eastern Libya, when launched their attack towards the west, in early March.

Forces loyal to Qadhafi took possession of it on 6 March. The fighting left at least 12 dead and over 50 injured, and signaled the start of the counterattack of the regime, which led to Gaddafi's troops at the gates of Benghazi, an opposition stronghold, on March 19, just arrived on the scene cuandro air forces of the international coalition that made the Libyan army recoil.

The Allied air raids continue at an accelerated rate, as reported by the Pentagon. The coalition aircraft yesterday made 160 starts, compared to 153 on Friday. Have launched heavy air strikes against the positions of Gaddafi on the coastal road between Ajdabiya and Sirte, 400 miles west, said last night a spokesman for the regime.

"We believe that many civilians have been killed, including families fleeing by car to air strikes," he said, and called for "urgent and immediate arrest raids, as well as holding an urgent meeting of the Security Council" of UN. End to ten-day siege at the city of Ajdabiya return, the rebels ended a ten-day siege of the Libyan troops in the town, strategic crossroads.

A blow to the colonel in command at Tripoli, and a boost for rebels last Sunday, with tanks of the despot in the door of Benghazi, feared a bloodbath. At noon yesterday, dozens of insurgents were firing into the air and antiaircraft machine guns. The joy was overwhelming and the noise, deafening.

They shouted "God is greatest" looking at the sky, where Allied aircraft fired missiles early morning against soldiers loyal to the tyrant. The few civilians who resisted the siege thanked foreign aid. Without it, would still be a hell Ajdabiya. Is still far from Tripoli. But at least ended the ordeal for Ajdabiya, a population that was emptied of its 100,000 inhabitants.

"We have been surrounded for days. They came with their trucks and shot at the houses. The vast majority of women and children fled. We had no electricity, no gas for cooking, or running water. We survived because many houses have underground water tanks, and used electric power converters follow the news on television, "recounted yesterday Abdullah, a married father of a child.

The anguish is reflected in his face when he speaks of the outrages perpetrated by the Army. The destruction of gas pipelines are nothing. "entire families and kidnapped the driver of the four journalists arrested in The New York Times. Shakluf called Mohamed is my neighbor, his car is still in the east gate of Ajdabiya "Abdullah claimed." Rebels to step out when the military raided in vans.

But since Wednesday, when we learned of the kidnapping, they attacked even more. "International coalition could be aware of." In the last three days bombarded with more strength, "smiled the employee of an oil company. The destruction in many neighborhoods jumped sight: hundreds of buildings with gaps of one meter or gunned down, homes of a plant-like almost everyone in this sprawling city, turned to rubble, charred cars and military vehicles on several streets, playgrounds destroyed ...

"The Gaddafi men robbed in supermarkets. Look, razed the pharmacy, "said Muftasaid, a fifty, while treading medicine bottles.

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