The rebels against the regime of Moammar Gadhafi is on the brink of losing control of the strategic town of Zauiya, in western Libya. The dictator's troops backed by tanks and artillery fire, rushed to the assault of the world famous oil just 50 miles from Tripoli, under rebel control since the start of the riots and that takes a week under siege continued Army according to witnesses quoted by Reuters and the Qatari Al-Jazeera.
According to Reuters, the rebels still control the center of this town of about 200 000 inhabitants, although witnesses report that many buildings, including mosques, have been completely destroyed. A government spokesman, Mussa Ibrahim, has said from Tripoli that Army units have taken control of Zauiya, adding that a small group of rebels has not been surrendered.
"The situation is very difficult, there are still pockets of resistance, no more than 30 or 40 people, hidden in the streets and in the cemetery. They are desperate. " The military offensive also flared in eastern Libya. The fighters resumed the punishment of the dictator and intense aerial bombardment of the oil city of Ras Lanuf under precarious control of the rebels.
While intensifying air strikes, the tankers can dock to charge only their deposits, the food reaches the eastern Libyan border with Egypt, but a shortage of products is remarkable because the country has stopped almost all economic activity, banks only work and tails are daily cash withdrawals.
Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, visited the Hotel Rixos of Tripoli, where they are confined most foreign journalists are in the Libyan capital, to give interviews to television channels. The colonel went to journalists gathered in the lobby of the hotel without answering questions, but raised his arms and clenched his fists in victory.
Any breach of security and stability in Libya will have an impact on security in North Africa and the Mediterranean Zone Europacoronel and leader of Libya. 
According to Reuters, the rebels still control the center of this town of about 200 000 inhabitants, although witnesses report that many buildings, including mosques, have been completely destroyed. A government spokesman, Mussa Ibrahim, has said from Tripoli that Army units have taken control of Zauiya, adding that a small group of rebels has not been surrendered.
"The situation is very difficult, there are still pockets of resistance, no more than 30 or 40 people, hidden in the streets and in the cemetery. They are desperate. " The military offensive also flared in eastern Libya. The fighters resumed the punishment of the dictator and intense aerial bombardment of the oil city of Ras Lanuf under precarious control of the rebels.
While intensifying air strikes, the tankers can dock to charge only their deposits, the food reaches the eastern Libyan border with Egypt, but a shortage of products is remarkable because the country has stopped almost all economic activity, banks only work and tails are daily cash withdrawals.
Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, visited the Hotel Rixos of Tripoli, where they are confined most foreign journalists are in the Libyan capital, to give interviews to television channels. The colonel went to journalists gathered in the lobby of the hotel without answering questions, but raised his arms and clenched his fists in victory.
Any breach of security and stability in Libya will have an impact on security in North Africa and the Mediterranean Zone Europacoronel and leader of Libya.
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