TRIPOLI - New Brega bombing at the center of the eastern Libyan city where the insurgents yesterday rejected an attack by air and ground troops loyal to Gaddafi. "I heard a plane, then the explosion and saw a crater," said the witness, Mohammed Shibli by Brega, stating that the bomb landed near the university of engineering which is located about two kilometers from the oil terminal for exports.
"There was an air strike about an hour and a half ago I saw with my own eyes," he said on his part Mohammed Awadh, who is a volunteer with the rebels. While fighting continues in the country, it tightens its grip against Saddam: the freezing of assets has been operating the family together Gaddafi decided by the EU arms embargo and the International Criminal Court opened an investigation into war crimes in which it is investigated the Libyan leader, along with leaders of the regime.
Meanwhile, the three U.S. warships passed through the Suez Canal are now 50 miles from the Libyan coast. Air raid also Ajdabiya. Continue, therefore, the strategy of the 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.
In the eastern part of the country, now controlled by rebels, while the Libyan leader has sent troops and fighter jets. New air raids have taken place this morning, 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.
NGO slams 25 thousand mercenaries paid for by oil revenues. From the Libyan League for Human Rights comes the complaint that mercenaries fighting for the Colonel against the popular uprising in Libya are about 25 thousand and are paid between 300 and 2 thousand dollars with the proceeds of oil revenue.
Not everyone has been deployed yet, said spokesman of the NGO Ali Zeidan. A general guide is two orders of Chad to respond to the ambassador of Chad to Libya, Dausse Deby, brother of President Idriss Deby of Chad, he added Zeidan, that there are at least 3,000 mercenaries are in Tripoli and another 3,000 around the capital.
Many are from Chad, but also from Niger, Mali, Zimbabwe or Liberia, said the spokesman. Three Dutch soldiers into the hands of militias wire Gaddafi. Three Dutch soldiers were captured by militia loyal to Saddam during humanitarian relief operation in northern Libya, reports the Dutch Ministry of Defense.
The news was confirmed by the Dutch navy, which lets you know that negotiations are underway for their release. According to Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf, the soldiers had landed by helicopter in which two civilians were also, landed in Sirte to organize the evacuation of displaced persons.
The civilians, the newspaper said, were then delivered to the Dutch embassy in Tripoli. U.S. ships 50 miles from the coast. American ships of war, who yesterday crossed the Suez Canal at the time of the Mediterranean are now 50 miles from the Libyan coast. This is the USS Kearsarge, which carries helicopters, the USS Ponce, carrying ammunition and landing craft and the transport ship that has Andrid aboard armored vehicles.
EU, operating the freezing of assets. 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.
This covers all property "owned, held or controlled" by persons designated in the lists and also the total embargo on arms sales and the ban on supplying equipment used for internal repression as vehicles equipped with water cannons, body armor , night vision goggles, knives with blades longer than 10 centimeters and sharp barbed wire.
ICC: Gaddafi investigated for crimes against humanity. On the diplomatic front, the EU High Representative for Common Foreign and Security, Catherine Ashton, has convened an informal extraordinary meeting of foreign ministers of the 27 to 10 March in Brussels. It also moves the International Criminal Court, which opened an investigation into crimes against humanity committed in Libya since 15 February, "in which Gaddafi is being investigated, along with leaders of the Libyan regime: it was announced in The Hague Attorney General of the Court, Luis Moreno Ocampo.
Born: ready for any eventuality. The dictator has promised yesterday that there will be thousands of deaths in the case of a military intervention in western Libya. For now, NATO does not foresee a military intervention in Libya, but is preparing for any eventuality, said today the secretary general of the alliance, Anders Fogh Rasmussen.
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". 
"There was an air strike about an hour and a half ago I saw with my own eyes," he said on his part Mohammed Awadh, who is a volunteer with the rebels. While fighting continues in the country, it tightens its grip against Saddam: the freezing of assets has been operating the family together Gaddafi decided by the EU arms embargo and the International Criminal Court opened an investigation into war crimes in which it is investigated the Libyan leader, along with leaders of the regime.
Meanwhile, the three U.S. warships passed through the Suez Canal are now 50 miles from the Libyan coast. Air raid also Ajdabiya. Continue, therefore, the strategy of the 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.
In the eastern part of the country, now controlled by rebels, while the Libyan leader has sent troops and fighter jets. New air raids have taken place this morning, 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.
NGO slams 25 thousand mercenaries paid for by oil revenues. From the Libyan League for Human Rights comes the complaint that mercenaries fighting for the Colonel against the popular uprising in Libya are about 25 thousand and are paid between 300 and 2 thousand dollars with the proceeds of oil revenue.
Not everyone has been deployed yet, said spokesman of the NGO Ali Zeidan. A general guide is two orders of Chad to respond to the ambassador of Chad to Libya, Dausse Deby, brother of President Idriss Deby of Chad, he added Zeidan, that there are at least 3,000 mercenaries are in Tripoli and another 3,000 around the capital.
Many are from Chad, but also from Niger, Mali, Zimbabwe or Liberia, said the spokesman. Three Dutch soldiers into the hands of militias wire Gaddafi. Three Dutch soldiers were captured by militia loyal to Saddam during humanitarian relief operation in northern Libya, reports the Dutch Ministry of Defense.
The news was confirmed by the Dutch navy, which lets you know that negotiations are underway for their release. According to Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf, the soldiers had landed by helicopter in which two civilians were also, landed in Sirte to organize the evacuation of displaced persons.
The civilians, the newspaper said, were then delivered to the Dutch embassy in Tripoli. U.S. ships 50 miles from the coast. American ships of war, who yesterday crossed the Suez Canal at the time of the Mediterranean are now 50 miles from the Libyan coast. This is the USS Kearsarge, which carries helicopters, the USS Ponce, carrying ammunition and landing craft and the transport ship that has Andrid aboard armored vehicles.
EU, operating the freezing of assets. 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.
This covers all property "owned, held or controlled" by persons designated in the lists and also the total embargo on arms sales and the ban on supplying equipment used for internal repression as vehicles equipped with water cannons, body armor , night vision goggles, knives with blades longer than 10 centimeters and sharp barbed wire.
ICC: Gaddafi investigated for crimes against humanity. On the diplomatic front, the EU High Representative for Common Foreign and Security, Catherine Ashton, has convened an informal extraordinary meeting of foreign ministers of the 27 to 10 March in Brussels. It also moves the International Criminal Court, which opened an investigation into crimes against humanity committed in Libya since 15 February, "in which Gaddafi is being investigated, along with leaders of the Libyan regime: it was announced in The Hague Attorney General of the Court, Luis Moreno Ocampo.
Born: ready for any eventuality. The dictator has promised yesterday that there will be thousands of deaths in the case of a military intervention in western Libya. For now, NATO does not foresee a military intervention in Libya, but is preparing for any eventuality, said today the secretary general of the alliance, Anders Fogh Rasmussen.
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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