ROME - Forces loyal to the regime of Gaddafi advancing more and more towards Benghazi, home of the National Council of the insurgents. After a day of fighting yesterday, the front line has shifted more towards the east and the city controlled by insurgents gradually fall into the hands of the army. Heavy bombing is going to Ajdabiyah, a strategic point on the coast east of Benghazi where the army is hoping to encircle the rebel stronghold.
To achieve Ajdabiyah the way of the wilderness, however, the forces of Gaddafi must first ensure complete control of the port of Brega. Yesterday, the rebels have turned to the east, bringing with them the anti-aircraft batteries, but then the fighting resumed. The rebels' military commander, Gen.
Abdel Fattah Younis has reaffirmed its intention to fight for Ajabidiya until the end. Just because it strategically on the wall Brega has unleashed a war of propaganda. According to Hadi Shalluf, opposition politician and leader of the Party for Justice and Democracy, the Libyan opposition forces continue to control the port city.
"The exact information that comes to us today - Shalluf said in an interview with Voice of America - is that the rebels have resumed Brega and seventy soldiers have captured a troop Gaddafi." Yesterday, however, the Libyan television showed images of the rebels fled the city and announced his release from the "armed gangs".
"Yes, there was a retreat - has admitted Shalluf - but then the insurgents came back and won the battle, capturing 71 people." But the regime's propaganda is working. The Libyan state television showed images of Brega reconquered by brigades loyal to the Colonel, and interviewed some people in the port city of Cyrenaica.
The television also showed the distribution of the subsidy of € 290 per family given by Gaddafi to the families of Bani Jawad, near Ras Lanuf, and Brega. But if the land is now supported for the colonel, his international isolation is almost complete. Today Russia is also the bans. The President Dmitri Medvedev announced that the Libyan leader and his family will not enter the country, will be banned and that the possibility of conducting financial transactions in the Russian territory of Libya.
And Libya will be devoted largely to the meeting of foreign ministers of the G8, today and tomorrow in Paris. France intends to push for is launched as soon as a no-fly zone over the country to source the rapid advance of the troops of Saddam. The meeting also provided for the participation of the Secretary of State americahno, Hillary Clinton.
The France is now the only Western country to have openly acknowledged as the legitimate body Transitional Council of the rebels. A Council delegation was also received by President Nicolas Sarkozy. Saturday the Arab League has officially asked the UN Security Council to impose a no-fly zone to stop military action against the Libyan people, while reiterating its opposition to any military intervention.
With the exception of China, will be present in Paris all the foreign ministers of the permanent members of UN Security Council, that those who can actually decide whether to launch the no-fly zone: United States, Britain, France and Russia. There will also be Italy, which say they are ready to follow any European decision if shared.
Also present Germany - crucial to any decision at the EU level - Canada and Japan. 
To achieve Ajdabiyah the way of the wilderness, however, the forces of Gaddafi must first ensure complete control of the port of Brega. Yesterday, the rebels have turned to the east, bringing with them the anti-aircraft batteries, but then the fighting resumed. The rebels' military commander, Gen.
Abdel Fattah Younis has reaffirmed its intention to fight for Ajabidiya until the end. Just because it strategically on the wall Brega has unleashed a war of propaganda. According to Hadi Shalluf, opposition politician and leader of the Party for Justice and Democracy, the Libyan opposition forces continue to control the port city.
"The exact information that comes to us today - Shalluf said in an interview with Voice of America - is that the rebels have resumed Brega and seventy soldiers have captured a troop Gaddafi." Yesterday, however, the Libyan television showed images of the rebels fled the city and announced his release from the "armed gangs".
"Yes, there was a retreat - has admitted Shalluf - but then the insurgents came back and won the battle, capturing 71 people." But the regime's propaganda is working. The Libyan state television showed images of Brega reconquered by brigades loyal to the Colonel, and interviewed some people in the port city of Cyrenaica.
The television also showed the distribution of the subsidy of € 290 per family given by Gaddafi to the families of Bani Jawad, near Ras Lanuf, and Brega. But if the land is now supported for the colonel, his international isolation is almost complete. Today Russia is also the bans. The President Dmitri Medvedev announced that the Libyan leader and his family will not enter the country, will be banned and that the possibility of conducting financial transactions in the Russian territory of Libya.
And Libya will be devoted largely to the meeting of foreign ministers of the G8, today and tomorrow in Paris. France intends to push for is launched as soon as a no-fly zone over the country to source the rapid advance of the troops of Saddam. The meeting also provided for the participation of the Secretary of State americahno, Hillary Clinton.
The France is now the only Western country to have openly acknowledged as the legitimate body Transitional Council of the rebels. A Council delegation was also received by President Nicolas Sarkozy. Saturday the Arab League has officially asked the UN Security Council to impose a no-fly zone to stop military action against the Libyan people, while reiterating its opposition to any military intervention.
With the exception of China, will be present in Paris all the foreign ministers of the permanent members of UN Security Council, that those who can actually decide whether to launch the no-fly zone: United States, Britain, France and Russia. There will also be Italy, which say they are ready to follow any European decision if shared.
Also present Germany - crucial to any decision at the EU level - Canada and Japan.
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