Monday, March 7, 2011

The situation at the 20th day of the uprising in Libya

Sunday morning, said the Libyan authorities have regained control of Ras Lanuf, Misrata and Tobruk, which were in the hands of insurgents. "The Libyan armed forces have taken control of towns and Misrata Ras Lanuf", a strategic oil city, state television reported Al Libiya near Seif Al-Islam, son of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi.

Journalists in the place and the insurgents, Ras Lanuf Sunday morning is still controlled by them. "There has been no fighting in the night, the city is under our control," said the insurgents at the site. "We have several journalists at a hotel at the western entrance of the city and we heard no noise of fighting," added a journalist on his side of the.

Al Libiya chain, citing a military source said that armed forces were moving toward the rebel city of Benghazi, 1 000 km east of Tripoli. In addition, automatic gunfire rang weapon Sunday around 6:20 in the center of the Libyan capital. It was not immediately possible to determine the origin of fire.

They were heard from a hotel located near the historic center of town, less than one kilometer from the Green Square. Tripoli remained under the control of the Libyan authorities, was largely spared by the violence last week. Muammar Gaddafi said in an interview with the Journal du Dimanche that "fighting terrorism" and Al Qaeda calls for France to lead a commission of inquiry into the situation in his country.

The caution of the United States vis-à-vis a possible military operation against Libya recalls a debate that had raged within the U.S. administration in the 1990s about the wars in former Yugoslavia. As for the wars in Bosnia and Kosovo, U.S. senators advocating an air strike to help the people while the Pentagon warns against the danger of such action.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said earlier this week that Washington was considering the introduction of a no-fly zone before acknowledging that the administration was "far" for having taken such a decision. More than 191,000 people have fled the violence so far and about 10,000 displaced people are moving towards the Egyptian border, the UN says.

Some 132 Egyptians who fled from Libya arrived in the night from Saturday to Sunday in Cairo aboard two aircraft C-130 of the U.S. Air Force, said a U.S. official. Both aircraft had taken off from Djerba in southern Tunisia. In the same interview with Libyan leader denounces foreign intervention: "I know there are semi-official contacts, the British, for example, or other Europeans, with characters of Benghazi, the second largest city in hands of insurgents, he said, linking the Netherlands to these interventions.

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