The U.S. president, Barack Obama said Thursday that the NATO intervention in Libya had saved thousands of lives while the Libyan leader has emerged in the evening, apparently in good health on television. Lamenting the state violence that has manifested itself over the riots, Barack Obama has held that "the most extreme example is Libya, where Muammar Gaddafi has waged war against its own citizens, promising them out as rats.
"Time is against Gaddafi. It will not control his country. The opposition has set up a Transition Board legitimate and credible," said Barack Obama. "When Qaddafi - it's inevitable - will leave power, or be forced to do so, decades of provocation will be terminated and the transition to a democratic Libya may be," he said.
Thursday evening, Libyan television showed pictures of Colonel Qaddafi conversing with his envoy Mohamed Ahmed Al-Sharif, which was Tuesday on a mission to Moscow. Dressed in black and wearing sunglasses, Colonel Gaddafi, who seemed in good health, talking with Ahmed Al-Sharif in an office before a television screen broadcast of the first Libyan state channel, with a headband green on which was inscribed the date "Thursday, May 19, 2011.
NATO has repeatedly referred to the residence of Colonel Gaddafi in Tripoli in recent weeks. Rumors had circulated then, that the guide was injured. The Secretary General of NATO, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, said for his part that the raids had "seriously broken the machinery of war" the Libyan leader.
"The Gaddafi regime is increasingly isolated every day," assured Mr. Rasmussen. "I am confident that the combination of a strong military pressure and political pressure will eventually lead to enhanced collapse of the regime," he added. In the night, NATO planes sank eight ships of war forces Gaddafi in attacks on the ports of Tripoli, Sirte and Al Khums. 
"Time is against Gaddafi. It will not control his country. The opposition has set up a Transition Board legitimate and credible," said Barack Obama. "When Qaddafi - it's inevitable - will leave power, or be forced to do so, decades of provocation will be terminated and the transition to a democratic Libya may be," he said.
Thursday evening, Libyan television showed pictures of Colonel Qaddafi conversing with his envoy Mohamed Ahmed Al-Sharif, which was Tuesday on a mission to Moscow. Dressed in black and wearing sunglasses, Colonel Gaddafi, who seemed in good health, talking with Ahmed Al-Sharif in an office before a television screen broadcast of the first Libyan state channel, with a headband green on which was inscribed the date "Thursday, May 19, 2011.
NATO has repeatedly referred to the residence of Colonel Gaddafi in Tripoli in recent weeks. Rumors had circulated then, that the guide was injured. The Secretary General of NATO, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, said for his part that the raids had "seriously broken the machinery of war" the Libyan leader.
"The Gaddafi regime is increasingly isolated every day," assured Mr. Rasmussen. "I am confident that the combination of a strong military pressure and political pressure will eventually lead to enhanced collapse of the regime," he added. In the night, NATO planes sank eight ships of war forces Gaddafi in attacks on the ports of Tripoli, Sirte and Al Khums.
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