Monday, April 25, 2011

In Libya, the NATO attacks Gadhafi's residence

.- The office of Col. Moammar Gadhafi, the vast residence of Tripoli, was completely destroyed on Sunday night to Monday's air attack, as a journalist found. In the bombing, 45 people were injured, 15 seriously, said a Libyan official who led the journalists to the site and said he was unaware if there were more victims under the rubble.

"This is an attempt to assassinate Colonel Gaddafi," he said. A meeting room opposite the office of Gadhafi, was hit by the wave of the explosion and was destroyed in part, noted the reporter. Earlier, fighting had resumed on Sunday in Misrata despite the announcement by the regime of suspension of operations against the rebels in the besieged city of western Libya, where the humanitarian situation of concern to the international community.

Misrata, theater of a genuine urban guerrillas between insurgents and troops of the Gadhafi regime, 200 km from Tripoli, recorded Saturday "the worst balance in 65 days of fighting, 28 killed and hundreds injured, to what add six dead and 34 wounded on Sunday until noon. The Libyan Deputy Foreign Kaaim Khaled said Saturday night that the regime's armed forces suspended their operations in Misrata to allow tribes to seek a peaceful solution.

But in the early hours of Sunday, Grad rockets exploded in bursts in the city and gunfire could be heard almost uninterrupted automatic weapons, according to journalists at the scene. A French journalist whose identity was not reported seriously injured Saturday night in Misrata, but was out of danger after undergoing surgery, hospital officials said.

The rebels confirmed the presence of tribal fighting between the troops of Gadhafi. "Sometimes we fight against the army men in uniform and sometimes against men in civilian clothes. Now there are tribal fighters from the south," said Omar Rajab, 29-year rebel fighter. Two loyalist soldiers wounded and captured on Sunday morning claimed that the morale of the troops pro Gadhafi is "very low." "Gadhafi forces are losing the" battle of Misrata, said one of them, Misbah Mansuri, 25 year old student.

The rebels announced they had managed to push back the troops from Gadhafi. An important section of the street Tripoli front line came under rebel control and the insurgents took over the building Tameen where ambushed francontiradores wreak havoc for several days. "Gadhafi's men retreat.

The rebels are trying to encircle the old public hospital. This is the last stronghold to defend, but still resist," said Dr. Hakim Zaggut, returning from the front. For the first time since the international military intervention on 19 March, a U.S. drone attacked. The U.S. military announced that two drones flew over Libya currently permanently.

One Saturday destroyed a multiple rocket launcher near Misrata. In Rome, during the traditional Easter blessing, Pope Benedict XVI said that "diplomacy and dialogue must replace weapons" in Libya. Although humanitarian aid supplied by sea, mainly due to ro-the International Organization for Migration (IOM), ranging up to Benghazi, further east, to evacuate people from all nationalities, the situation has deteriorated Misrata, where water is not potable.

In the west, forces loyal to bombed Gadhafi on Sunday afternoon the area around the border between Tunisia and Libya Dehiba to try to retake the city of Wazzan, according to testimony obtained. Kuwait, oil-rich Gulf emirate agreed a financial aid of 50 million dinars (180 million dollars) to the rebellion in Libya, said Sunday the president of the National Transitional Council (CNT), political arm of the rebellion, visit to Kuwait.

NATO said its aircraft have made more than 3000 outlets since taking the reins of operations in late March. According to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), over 570 thousand people have fled to Libya since the beginning of the revolt against the regime on 15 February.

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