Heavy fighting raged, Sunday, April 3, near the site of Brega oil between rebels and forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi while a Libyan government envoy arrived in Athens in the afternoon. Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs of Libya was to meet Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou to give him a message of Muammar Qaddafi, which we do not yet know the content.
If the army keeps out rebels in the field, the Libyan authorities had a political and diplomatic setback on Sunday with the resignation of an adviser to Colonel Gaddafi, Ali Tikrit, former senior diplomats and "Mr. Africa" of Libyan leader. This senior diplomat, former Minister of Foreign Affairs and African Affairs, Ambassador of Libya to the UN, has not said if he joined the rebel camp, said the Arab League in Cairo.
The Deputy Minister Libyan Foreign and European Affairs, Abdelati Laabidi, for its part, came to Tunisia on Sunday by the border crossing at Ras Tunisian-Libyan Jdir, witnesses said. It is through this same path as the Libyan foreign minister Musa Kusa had arrived in Tunisia on March 28.
Two days later he flew to London where he announced his defection a blow to Colonel Gaddafi. Because these days, fighting in the east of the site focused around Brega oil, 800 km from Tripoli and 240 km south of Benghazi, an opposition stronghold. After taking the University of Petroleum, a huge campus at the eastern entrance of the city, the rebels had to retreat under fire from pro-Gaddafi.
Loud explosions echoed from the positions of the latter, while NATO planes, including air strikes have slowed in recent days-offensive against forces loyal to the east, flying over the area. "We were in Brega, but they still derive, the Kalash." Our guys will go and have, for sure, "said Abdelkader Menefi, 39, on the side of the road.
"The situation is good, we are at the gates of Brega," assured a soldier posing as a "colonel" of the rebellion but denying that his name was mentioned. "The dictator's army withdrew, we have the control of the city shortly." Brega area was the scene of fierce fighting for several days between insurgents and pro-Gaddafi, who had quickly progressed to the west a week ago before falling back under pressure from loyalists.
For the first time since the start of international intervention on March 19, nine rebels and four civilians, including three medical students, were killed Friday night by a NATO strike some fifteen miles east of Brega. The Atlantic Alliance, who took command Thursday of military operations in support of the rebellion, said Saturday that it "looked" the information on this possible flaw.
According to an official policy of Ajdabiya, 80 km east of Brega, a coalition aircraft opened fire on a convoy of five or six vehicles, including an ambulance. The pilot probably thought to have been affected by the firing of joy of a rebel in the convoy. South-west of Tripoli, residents of Ketler announced that the city had been targeted on Friday and Saturday by dozens of Grad rockets forces loyal to Colonel Qaddafi, who made more than thirty deaths.
At the other end of the country, a delegation of British diplomats arrived Saturday evening in the rebel stronghold of Benghazi, "to come into contact with personalities, including the National Transitional Council (CNT), a representative body of the rebellion, by London. The delegation arrived nearly a month after sending the first British mission March 6 in Benghazi, which had petered out: diplomats and members of British special forces who composed it, were arrested by the insurgents little after arriving by helicopter.
They had to leave the country soon after. 
If the army keeps out rebels in the field, the Libyan authorities had a political and diplomatic setback on Sunday with the resignation of an adviser to Colonel Gaddafi, Ali Tikrit, former senior diplomats and "Mr. Africa" of Libyan leader. This senior diplomat, former Minister of Foreign Affairs and African Affairs, Ambassador of Libya to the UN, has not said if he joined the rebel camp, said the Arab League in Cairo.
The Deputy Minister Libyan Foreign and European Affairs, Abdelati Laabidi, for its part, came to Tunisia on Sunday by the border crossing at Ras Tunisian-Libyan Jdir, witnesses said. It is through this same path as the Libyan foreign minister Musa Kusa had arrived in Tunisia on March 28.
Two days later he flew to London where he announced his defection a blow to Colonel Gaddafi. Because these days, fighting in the east of the site focused around Brega oil, 800 km from Tripoli and 240 km south of Benghazi, an opposition stronghold. After taking the University of Petroleum, a huge campus at the eastern entrance of the city, the rebels had to retreat under fire from pro-Gaddafi.
Loud explosions echoed from the positions of the latter, while NATO planes, including air strikes have slowed in recent days-offensive against forces loyal to the east, flying over the area. "We were in Brega, but they still derive, the Kalash." Our guys will go and have, for sure, "said Abdelkader Menefi, 39, on the side of the road.
"The situation is good, we are at the gates of Brega," assured a soldier posing as a "colonel" of the rebellion but denying that his name was mentioned. "The dictator's army withdrew, we have the control of the city shortly." Brega area was the scene of fierce fighting for several days between insurgents and pro-Gaddafi, who had quickly progressed to the west a week ago before falling back under pressure from loyalists.
For the first time since the start of international intervention on March 19, nine rebels and four civilians, including three medical students, were killed Friday night by a NATO strike some fifteen miles east of Brega. The Atlantic Alliance, who took command Thursday of military operations in support of the rebellion, said Saturday that it "looked" the information on this possible flaw.
According to an official policy of Ajdabiya, 80 km east of Brega, a coalition aircraft opened fire on a convoy of five or six vehicles, including an ambulance. The pilot probably thought to have been affected by the firing of joy of a rebel in the convoy. South-west of Tripoli, residents of Ketler announced that the city had been targeted on Friday and Saturday by dozens of Grad rockets forces loyal to Colonel Qaddafi, who made more than thirty deaths.
At the other end of the country, a delegation of British diplomats arrived Saturday evening in the rebel stronghold of Benghazi, "to come into contact with personalities, including the National Transitional Council (CNT), a representative body of the rebellion, by London. The delegation arrived nearly a month after sending the first British mission March 6 in Benghazi, which had petered out: diplomats and members of British special forces who composed it, were arrested by the insurgents little after arriving by helicopter.
They had to leave the country soon after.
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