Saturday, April 23, 2011

Gadhafi Army Misrata leave

.- Forces loyal to Colonel Moammar Gadhafi will abandon the rebel city of Misrata (west) and entrusted to the tribes of the region's mission of ending the conflict in this area by way of negotiation or force, said on Friday a senior diplomat. "The situation in Misrata be resolved. will be treated by the tribes of the region and the inhabitants of Misrata, not by the Libyan army (...) The Libyan army is outside," said Deputy Foreign Kaim Khaled told reporters.

As Kaim, "the tactics of the Army was reaching a surgical solution but this does not work with air strikes" on. "Let us leave the tribes near Misrata Misrata and people dealing with the situation using the force or negotiations, "he added. As Kaim, the regime set an "ultimatum" to the Libyan regime.

"If you can not solve the problem in Misrata, people of (the neighboring cities) Zliten, Tarhuna, Bani Walid and Tawargha go to talk to the rebels. Failure yield will fight. " Misrata, Libya's third largest city, 200 km east of Tripoli, is the setting for weeks of deadly urban warfare between the rebellion and forces loyal to Colonel Moammar Gadhafi.

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) estimated Friday that the humanitarian situation in Misrata degraded, where access to water and medical care have become especially problematic. Kaim felt, moreover, that the U.S. administration sent unmanned aircraft to Libya "to kill people" and accused Washington of "new crimes against humanity", after the tasks, he said, in Iraq and Afghanistan.

U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Thursday the U.S. use of 'drones' armed in Libya and considered that it was a "modest contribution" to the efforts of the international coalition. The Libyan deputy minister criticized Friday's visit to Benghazi, an opposition stronghold, a thousand miles east of Tripoli, U.S.

Senator John McCain, considering that the National Transitional Council (CNT) of the rebellion, does not represent the Libyan people or has "no authority in the field." McCain, who met with the leaders of the CNT and urged "the international community to recognize the CNT as a legitimate voice of the Libyan people."

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