Thursday, March 3, 2011

Uprising in Libya: Gaddafi launches offensive against rebels

Fierce fighting in eastern Libya: the forces of Muammar al-Gaddafi have retaken by witnesses, the city Brega and its oil facilities. The air force bombed the regime appeared to another city. In Tripoli makes the explosion of a tank truck for panic. Gaddafi loyal troops hit back: the regime's soldiers apparently recaptured the town in eastern Libya Brega and the country's oil installations.


The report officers who have joined the opponents of the regime. A manager of the Sirte Oil Company, Ahmed Dscherksi confirmed the details of Brega. Gaddafi's troops had the oil system of his company under their control, he said. The station al-Jazeera reported on Wednesday, the city Adschdabijah was attacked by two fighter jets.

Where rebels control a military base and a weapons cache. According to al-Arabiya, the soldiers have also taken the airport, which lies west of Adschdabijah. Nuri al-Obeidi, a police commander of the rebels in Benghazi, disagreed with this view, however. He said Wednesday that Gaddafi's forces had on Tuesday evening while trying to occupy the airport.

However, they were pushed back by "demonstrators". A resident reported that Gadhafi troops had recaptured the strategic city in Gharjan Nafussa range near Tripoli. According to retainers Gaddafi's also the place Sabratha was taken west of the capital again, which was in the past week appears to be controlled in turn by the regime forces and insurgents.

Gharjan was taken on Friday by the rebels, told the residents. After the recapture of Gaddafi's henchmen were arrested officers had defected to the opposition. There are browse lists with the names of dissidents have been created. The search was immediately begun. In Tripoli, the explosion of a tanker truck on Wednesday sparked panic among residents.

Whether this was an act of sabotage was not immediately known. The fire department moved out of four fire engines to fight the flames. Residents attacked foreign journalists who arrived at the site of the explosion. They drove the reporter back to the hotel in which they live. Opposition plans to call for help to the West to the brutal repression against government opponents Libya was ruled out on Tuesday night officially from the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva.

Never before has the world organization has taken in this form to an active member. The administration of U.S. President Barack Obama is considering whether to cancel the official diplomatic relations with Libya, a senior government employees to the U.S. news network CNN said on the night of Wednesday.

The EU and the UN have imposed extensive sanctions, particularly against the Gaddafi clan. A military intervention seems to the Libyan opposition not been excluded - on the contrary: according to the New York Times and Washington Post in circles, the opponents of the regime even discussion as to ask the West, with air strikes under UN mandate to help overthrow Gaddafi.

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