Wednesday, May 11, 2011

Libya, the rebels, "Gaddafi escaped, captured the airport Measured"

The colonel from Libya, Muammar Gaddafi, was abandoned by several days the capital, Tripoli, to take refuge in a desert area of the country. According to reports from the site of the movement in February '17 ', linked to the rebels in Libya, Gaddafi would be hidden in the desert area of Ash Shurayf, about 400 km south of the capital.

The insurgents do not exclude that from that place might then decide, if necessary, to escape more easily to the neighboring Chad. On the Facebook page "Intifada, 17 February" appears instead reports that Gaddafi would have gone off in an unknown place, as the rebels say the Libyans on their page.

The movement indicates the next May 17 as 'Day of rage' across Tripoli. Always announce the insurgents had captured the airport and the city of Misurata, hit in recent days by loyalist forces. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon called for an immediate cease-fire in Libya, which was rejected by the rebels.

Ban has called for the fighting to stop immediately "to measure" and elsewhere in the country, stressing the need to continue political dialogue. The secretary, during a press conference, also said he spoke with Libyan Prime Minister Al-Baghdadi Ali al-Mahmoudi and asking him an "immediate and verifiable ceasefire and halt attacks against civilians.

"It is not the time - was his reply given to a spokesman for the insurgents to Zintan - because Gaddafi does not respect them ever. He bombed civilians shortly after his regime spoke of the willingness to observe a truce. " So the rebels rejected the UN request. The rebels themselves have now announced that it has taken the airport measured at the center of the clashes of recent days with loyalist forces.

After winning a prison within the complex, were able to go to the African market. Close to the south, troops of Colonel decided to retire. The population of the city symbol of resistance to Rais welcomed the news of the conquest of the airport with exultation. In the morning there were also new NATO air strikes on Tripoli.

Eyewitnesses reported that has been hit particularly the eastern part of the capital of Libya. Witnesses also reported that explosions from the area have been spoken for about an hour while hunting in the sky were visible in flight. Also this morning the High Representative for Common Foreign and Security of the European Union, Lady Catherine Ashton announced that the EU will open a representative office in Benghazi, in order to provide better assistance to the rebels and the Libyan National Council transition (CNT).

"I intend to open an office in Benghazi," said Lady Ashton, "to improve our support," as called for in the Union, the people of Libya, Libyan civil society, the CNT. The Chamber has welcomed the decision with a thunderous round of applause: it was the European parliament, together with France, to pay tribute to the insurgents in fact the first official recognition.

"In Libya," said the head of EU diplomacy, "many people have now heard for the first time the word 'Constitution' refers to their country. It was a long time that the Libyans wanted to put an end to that regime, and Europe will contribute to building a full democracy. " Ashton explained that the areas where the EU wants to "help out" in particular are "education, health and border security," adding that "everything the EU does in Libya follows the thread of human rights" .

Finally, he renewed the request to Muammar Gaddafi to be put aside: "Let us be clear," he cut it short, "Gaddafi has to leave power, he must end his regime must go."

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