The regime announced a truce. But Gaddafi does not stop. After the attack yesterday in Zawiya, the dictator unleashed tanks measured against. It then launches a threat: "If I fall, thousands of people will invade Europe from Libya." The day started with entries from Tripoli announced that an agreement reached the night of the Libyan tribes to the cessation of hostilities.
In the capital felt the blows of a firearm, according to the same sources that were shot to celebrate the end of the insurgency. The streets were then filled with cars honking and thousands of people waving green flags symbol of the regime. In the next hours Gaddafi might appear on television to announce the tragua.
While state television shows pictures of hundreds of people constantly in the Green party in the square and scenes of jubilation outside the hotel that houses foreign journalists, in the rest of the country but continues to fight. Eyewitnesses reported that forces loyal to Colonel launched an offensive with heavy weapons and tanks to measure the coastal town that the government has announced that it has recovered, but according to the rebels is still in the hands of insurgents.
The budget of the fighting for now is a dead and eight injured, according to rebel sources. Uncertain is the fate of other cities. The battle rages in Ras Lanuf. Oil in the coastal town has been heard a huge explosion, followed by shots of the anti-aircraft guns of the rebels. Previously had been bombed a rebel checkpoint and installed in a camp and attacked the army barracks.
The rebels announced that they had shot down a helicopter. According to Al Jazeera, however, the city was retaken by loyalist troops, although there are pockets of resistance, and the Air Force colonel who bombed the rebels were advancing towards Sirte, Gaddafi's home town. According to Al Arabiya broadcaster instead Ras Lanuf is still in rebel hands.
Fighting between insurgents and forces led to Gaddafi bin Jawad, according to medical sources, at least two dead and 30 wounded, including a French journalist shot in the leg. Following the fierce fighting, the rebels have admitted folded: "We withdrew from Jawad Bin, our defensive line will be at Ras Lanuf", they said.
Witnesses report to the satellite TV 'al-Arabiya' of gunfire today in al-Zawiyah, where troops of Gaddafi yesterday launched a violent attack. The government has also announced the recapture of Tobruk, news contradicted by the rebels. Meanwhile, the Sunday Times newspaper reported that the rebels have captured Libyans in the east a team of British special forces, after a secret diplomatic mission to make contact with the opposition had failed.
The men of the commandos, probably belonging to the eight military special forces SAS, were arrested along with the British diplomat who escorted. The arrival of the commandos at the side of the diplomat, according to the Sunday Times, "has frustrated the opposition figures, who ordered the soldiers to be detained at a military base" in Benghazi.
Opponents to Gaddafi, the newspaper said, "the fear that Saddam could use any evidence of Western military interference to gather around patriotic support for his regime." While the situation in Libya is still confusing, Gaddafi in an interview with French weekly Le Journal de Dimanche warns Europe that there will be consequences in the event of the fall of the regime: "If you threaten, if it destabilizes, it will to the confusion, to bin Laden, to the armed factions.
You will have immigration, thousands of people will invade Europe from Libya. And there will be nobody to stop them. " 
In the capital felt the blows of a firearm, according to the same sources that were shot to celebrate the end of the insurgency. The streets were then filled with cars honking and thousands of people waving green flags symbol of the regime. In the next hours Gaddafi might appear on television to announce the tragua.
While state television shows pictures of hundreds of people constantly in the Green party in the square and scenes of jubilation outside the hotel that houses foreign journalists, in the rest of the country but continues to fight. Eyewitnesses reported that forces loyal to Colonel launched an offensive with heavy weapons and tanks to measure the coastal town that the government has announced that it has recovered, but according to the rebels is still in the hands of insurgents.
The budget of the fighting for now is a dead and eight injured, according to rebel sources. Uncertain is the fate of other cities. The battle rages in Ras Lanuf. Oil in the coastal town has been heard a huge explosion, followed by shots of the anti-aircraft guns of the rebels. Previously had been bombed a rebel checkpoint and installed in a camp and attacked the army barracks.
The rebels announced that they had shot down a helicopter. According to Al Jazeera, however, the city was retaken by loyalist troops, although there are pockets of resistance, and the Air Force colonel who bombed the rebels were advancing towards Sirte, Gaddafi's home town. According to Al Arabiya broadcaster instead Ras Lanuf is still in rebel hands.
Fighting between insurgents and forces led to Gaddafi bin Jawad, according to medical sources, at least two dead and 30 wounded, including a French journalist shot in the leg. Following the fierce fighting, the rebels have admitted folded: "We withdrew from Jawad Bin, our defensive line will be at Ras Lanuf", they said.
Witnesses report to the satellite TV 'al-Arabiya' of gunfire today in al-Zawiyah, where troops of Gaddafi yesterday launched a violent attack. The government has also announced the recapture of Tobruk, news contradicted by the rebels. Meanwhile, the Sunday Times newspaper reported that the rebels have captured Libyans in the east a team of British special forces, after a secret diplomatic mission to make contact with the opposition had failed.
The men of the commandos, probably belonging to the eight military special forces SAS, were arrested along with the British diplomat who escorted. The arrival of the commandos at the side of the diplomat, according to the Sunday Times, "has frustrated the opposition figures, who ordered the soldiers to be detained at a military base" in Benghazi.
Opponents to Gaddafi, the newspaper said, "the fear that Saddam could use any evidence of Western military interference to gather around patriotic support for his regime." While the situation in Libya is still confusing, Gaddafi in an interview with French weekly Le Journal de Dimanche warns Europe that there will be consequences in the event of the fall of the regime: "If you threaten, if it destabilizes, it will to the confusion, to bin Laden, to the armed factions.
You will have immigration, thousands of people will invade Europe from Libya. And there will be nobody to stop them. "
- Libya: fate of key cities unclear as Gaddafi claims 'victories' (06/03/2011)
- "Rebels Take, Hold Key Oil Cities in Fierce Libyan Civil War" and related posts (06/03/2011)
- You: Report: Libya's Gaddafi loses more ground in Misurata and Tripoli (27/02/2011)
- Libya rebels want military help to topple Khadafy (02/03/2011)
- You: As Gaddafi holds on, Libyan opposition considers next move (02/03/2011)
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