Residents of Tripoli on Saturday were preparing for bloody battles against the threat of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi of arming civilians to defeat the popular rebellion, which controls the oil-rich east and threatens to overthrow the Libyan regime after four decades in power. Clashes continued on Saturday in Libya and Moammar Gadhafi opponents, who controlled the oil-rich east, and supporters of the Libyan leader, who maintained control of Tripoli.
On the diplomatic pressure was accentuated on the twelfth day of insurrection. Thus, the head of Italian government Silvio Berlusconi said that "it seems Gadhafi no longer controls the situation", while his German counterpart, Angela Merkel, and British, David Cameron, called for "severe sanctions" from the UN and the European Union against Gadhafi's regime.
In the eastern part of Libya, while establishing a new administration in the cities under their control, the armed opposition hopes that power changes hands in Tripoli. "We are coordinating committees and Musratha liberated cities. We hope to kick off Tripoli regime of Gadhafi and his children and then try to form a transitional government," he told AFP Ghoqa Abdelhafiz, spokesman for the Coalition February 17 Revolutionary.
" "Every day I leave for Tripoli volunteers" who will fight, added, ensuring that new officers Gadhafi abandoned and started to fight with opposition forces. Meanwhile, in some districts of Tripoli, "the electricity has been cut (Tuesday night) and since then has not been restored," one resident said by telephone.
"We were terrified. We thought we were preparing an attack. We collected all that could be used as a weapon and watched the door of the house," he added. But in other neighborhoods of the capital, where electricity was not cut, the night was calm, according to an AFP reporter. On the diplomatic front, U.S.
President Barack Obama signed a decree to freeze assets and block U.S. assets of Gadhafi and his four children. The Security Council UN consultations will resume on Saturday at 16:00 GMT. A draft resolution mentioned penalties, including two attachments, one of arms and travel of Colonel Gadhafi, whose assets were also frozen, according to diplomatic sources.
The Libyan regime appears increasingly isolated, after being abandoned by the Arab countries and several co-workers and diplomats, including the Libyan ambassador in Paris, Lisbon, Geneva, the UN and UNESCO, as well as the Dam Gadhaf adviser and cousin Gadhafi. It is difficult to determine the balance of the violence gripping the country.
According to the deputy ambassador of the Libyan mission to the UN, Ibrahim Dabashi, who also defected, the dead number in the thousands, but others shuffle between 300 and over a thousand deaths. Abroad criticized and attacked by an armed opposition, Gadhafi spoke Friday night in front of hundreds of supporters in downtown Tripoli.
"We will fight and win," he said. "If necessary, we will open all the arsenals to arm all the people," he threatened. On Friday the pro-Gadhafi, deployed around mosques in the capital to prevent protests, fired on the demonstrators. In the east of the city, at least two protesters were killed Gadhafi's followers in the neighborhood of Fachlum, according to a witness.
Both in this area as in the Ben Achur, witnesses noticed "intense fire against those who (were) in the street." "Security forces opened fire indiscriminately on demonstrators. There are dead in the streets of Sug Al Joma," said another resident. Libyan television said, citing medical sources, however denied that there was dead in Tripoli. 
On the diplomatic pressure was accentuated on the twelfth day of insurrection. Thus, the head of Italian government Silvio Berlusconi said that "it seems Gadhafi no longer controls the situation", while his German counterpart, Angela Merkel, and British, David Cameron, called for "severe sanctions" from the UN and the European Union against Gadhafi's regime.
In the eastern part of Libya, while establishing a new administration in the cities under their control, the armed opposition hopes that power changes hands in Tripoli. "We are coordinating committees and Musratha liberated cities. We hope to kick off Tripoli regime of Gadhafi and his children and then try to form a transitional government," he told AFP Ghoqa Abdelhafiz, spokesman for the Coalition February 17 Revolutionary.
" "Every day I leave for Tripoli volunteers" who will fight, added, ensuring that new officers Gadhafi abandoned and started to fight with opposition forces. Meanwhile, in some districts of Tripoli, "the electricity has been cut (Tuesday night) and since then has not been restored," one resident said by telephone.
"We were terrified. We thought we were preparing an attack. We collected all that could be used as a weapon and watched the door of the house," he added. But in other neighborhoods of the capital, where electricity was not cut, the night was calm, according to an AFP reporter. On the diplomatic front, U.S.
President Barack Obama signed a decree to freeze assets and block U.S. assets of Gadhafi and his four children. The Security Council UN consultations will resume on Saturday at 16:00 GMT. A draft resolution mentioned penalties, including two attachments, one of arms and travel of Colonel Gadhafi, whose assets were also frozen, according to diplomatic sources.
The Libyan regime appears increasingly isolated, after being abandoned by the Arab countries and several co-workers and diplomats, including the Libyan ambassador in Paris, Lisbon, Geneva, the UN and UNESCO, as well as the Dam Gadhaf adviser and cousin Gadhafi. It is difficult to determine the balance of the violence gripping the country.
According to the deputy ambassador of the Libyan mission to the UN, Ibrahim Dabashi, who also defected, the dead number in the thousands, but others shuffle between 300 and over a thousand deaths. Abroad criticized and attacked by an armed opposition, Gadhafi spoke Friday night in front of hundreds of supporters in downtown Tripoli.
"We will fight and win," he said. "If necessary, we will open all the arsenals to arm all the people," he threatened. On Friday the pro-Gadhafi, deployed around mosques in the capital to prevent protests, fired on the demonstrators. In the east of the city, at least two protesters were killed Gadhafi's followers in the neighborhood of Fachlum, according to a witness.
Both in this area as in the Ben Achur, witnesses noticed "intense fire against those who (were) in the street." "Security forces opened fire indiscriminately on demonstrators. There are dead in the streets of Sug Al Joma," said another resident. Libyan television said, citing medical sources, however denied that there was dead in Tripoli.
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