Saturday, April 30, 2011

Gaddafi will not accept the surrender or exile, according to a former regime sided with the insurgents

Brussels, European Bureau - General Abdel Fattah Younis, commander of the rebellion Jamahiriya, met Thursday, April 28, in Brussels, NATO officials and European Union for their claim of heavy weapons, antitank missiles , helicopter gunships and naval weapons. The former No. 2 officer Gaddafi regime, rallied in March in the insurgent cause, told his interlocutors that he believed the Libyan president will not accept the surrender or exile.

"He refused several offers that were presented. The most probable is that he was killed or committed suicide," he explained to reporters prior to the premises of the Independent Libya Foundation. This new organization, created by businessmen, including a wealthy Libyan exile in Switzerland, aims to become the European headquarters of the National Transition Council.

The issue of arming potential rebels are not resolved and continues to generate significant differences within NATO. It will réévoquée May 5 in Rome, at a further meeting of the Contact Group, the instance of political leadership and coordination of the intervention in Libya. Very critical about the alleged slowness of NATO in the early bombing operations, General Younis has changed his tone but no diagnosis.

He said coalition forces have destroyed the best third of the military capabilities of the Libyan army. This is the figure that was put forward by the Atlantic Alliance a week after the offensive began. Since then, the military command of NATO denies any accurate estimate. For the leader of the rebellion, however, international forces have the capacity to destroy quickly the essential forces now massed in three to twenty kilometers from the town of Misrata, where the health and humanitarian situation is dramatic because, among others, lack of water and medicines.

"It's easy to target these devices with military air assets and I have already made this request to NATO, which could accelerate the pace." Called Thursday, the spokesman for NATO did not respond. Especially, perhaps, that the visit of the Libyan General Headquarters of the Alliance had, in principle, be discreet and that its leaders refuse to consider that it is their sole contact.

For General Younis, Muammar Gaddafi is able to use its stockpile of mustard (mustard gas): the army would have kept a quarter of the chemical weapons it had. Challenged an assertion challenged by some military experts, who point out that it has probably more than the necessary weapons to gas diffusion.

European leaders he met, including Pierre Vimont, the secretary-general's executive European diplomatic service, the former colonel Gaddafi wanted, essentially repeating a reassuring message: "We will create a new Libya, free, democratic and good neighbor for Europe. " Jean-Pierre Stroobants

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