Friday, February 25, 2011

Libya: Obama calls for sanctions

The United States have spoken out on the night of Friday for sanctions against Libya. According to government sources, the country also wants to work for a run by the United Nations investigation of the "serious and systematic violations of human rights by the Libyan authorities".

To discuss the way forward, President Barack Obama on the phone with British Prime Minister David Cameron and French President Nicolas Sarkozy. What was discussed in detail was not immediately known. The American President, Obama had said in the Wednesday night for the first time to the carnage wrought by Gaddafi in the Libyan population.


"The carnage is horrible and unacceptable," said Obama. He reiterated that his government would review all options to respond to the violence. As before, Secretary Clinton, he pointed out that the welfare of American citizens in Libya have the highest priority. Mrs. Clinton on Monday to attend a meeting of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva.

The Secretary of State for Political Affairs in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, William Burns traveled, currently several states of the Maghreb and to meet with European partners. The slow response to Washington's brutal crackdown against its own people Gaddafi criticized the American media always open.

Given the ongoing violence against government opponents also Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle (FDP) has international sanctions against Muammar al Gaddafi demanded. "This regime proposed in Libya as crazy about him, it is waging a war against its own people. This can not be tolerated, "Westerwelle said on Friday WDR2.

The UN Security Council must therefore once again look at the situation in the North African country. "And we must also decide jointly sanctions," the minister said. He proposed that entry barriers for Gaddafi's family and the freezing of assets, such as those already adopted by Switzerland.

The Alpine republic on Thursday blocked all the assets of the Gaddafi family. The EU reiterated its threat of sanctions. President Christian Wulff Gaddafi condemned as a "psychopath" who terrorize his people by force. "This is state terrorism. This is clearly the actions that can be called psychopathic, "Wulff said after talks with Italian President Giorgio Napolitano in Berlin.

The Air Force flies and German citizens of other States from Libya from NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen called the light of the dramatic situation in Libya, nor for Friday an emergency meeting of the North Atlantic Council, the highest decision making body of the alliance one.

"The situation in Libya is a cause for great concern," Rasmussen wrote on his website in the online short message service Twitter, on which he announced the convening of the emergency meeting. NATO is prepared to act as "coordinator" to act, the Member countries want to take action over the situation in Libya.

Rasmussen confirmed to journalists in the Hungarian capital Budapest, that the meeting was scheduled in the afternoon. He arrives in Budapest near Gödölö already in the morning, the defense ministers of the European Union. NATO include 21 in the 28 EU countries. With the defense ministers he wanted to discuss how those in need in Libya "supports pragmatic" and the "consequences of these events" may be limited, "said Rasmussen.

The killings in Libya to take the meantime, despite the growing outrage in the world no end. Muammar al-Gaddafi appears verbally unimpressed. Also in Tobruk in the east of the country it was apparently sparked a lively battle, the Libyan leader Gaddafi has Al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden responsible for the rebellion in his country made.

Gaddafi said on state television on Thursday that insurgents are youths who were under the influence of drugs and Al Qaeda. Meanwhile, true-to intervene with great brutality of the dictator regime opponents who control several cities in the east. According to eyewitness reports, while dozens were killed.

The regime, meanwhile, threatened foreign journalists residing without authorization in the country. This would be treated as spies or Al-Qaeda terrorists, the Libyan government could not guarantee their safety, it said. The exodus of foreigners from Libya in the meantime. Organize governments around the world with high pressure to rescue their citizens.

The German Navy sent three ships. The markets drive the unrest, the prices of oil, gold and silver higher still. Gaddafi said in the address of the inhabitants of the town of Al zawiya: "If you want to kill each other, then does this" From there on the morning violent clashes between protesters and troops were reported to Gaddafi.

An eyewitness told the Arab news channel Al-Arabiya on Thursday, the city resembled a "slaughter house", adding: ". It is hard now to many deaths and injuries to count in the city," the evening was further protests from other cities reported, including in the port city of Benghazi. The Libyan head of state by state television this time will not be shown, but only switched telephone was said, however, a "comedy" that take place in the city.

He also repeated his accusation that the rebels were under the influence of drugs. The German UN Ambassador Peter Wittig said on Thursday in New York that it was "high time for the Security Council to act and to be specific. This Friday will address the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva at a special meeting with the situation in Libya.

A military intervention ended the EU defense ministers at an informal meeting in Budapest, however. "Libya is a sovereign state," said Minister of Hungary Csaba Hende. Also had been "neither official nor semi-official" received the request for military help. An Egyptian who lives with his family in the Libyan town of Misrata told the news agency DPA in a telephone interview, parts of the city were controlled by protesters.

"We do not know how we are to flee to Egypt, we're surrounded," he lamented, "The situation here is terrible." An eyewitness in Tripoli said, had in the capital on Thursday a few banks and shops opened. The authorities are all closed. The German businessman Andreas Weichelt told the radio station MDR Info, subject bodies in the street, in many fronts of the houses you see bullet holes.

The Gaddafi's son Saif al-Islam contradicted reports on the Libyan air force attacks on civilians. Since the beginning of the riots were a few people died, he said on Libyan radio. "(...) But to speak of hundreds or thousands, of air strikes, that's a joke from the military point of view itself," he said.

In recent days, in Arab media have been persistent reports of air attacks on barracks and ammunition depots. This was intended to prevent weapons from falling into the hands of insurgents or were taken away by soldiers defected. However, it was relying on eyewitness also been reported in Tripoli that the fire fighters had opened on unarmed demonstrators.

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon announced to want to ensure that those responsible will face an international court. Al-Saadi, another Gaddafi's son said the "Financial Times" (Thursday) in a telephone interview, 85 percent of the country were "very quiet and very safe." His brother Saif al-Islam is currently working on a constitution for Libya.

His father would henceforth act as adviser to a new government, "said Al Saadi. "My father will remain as a great father who gives advice." The retired Libyan Justice Minister Mohamed Abdul Al Dscheleil expected, however an early suicide Gaddafi. Al Dscheleil said in a Thursday interview published in the Swedish newspaper Expressen: "Gaddafi's days are numbered.

He will do it like Hitler and kill themselves. "In the Al Jazeera Channel Al Dscheleil brought his fears expressed that Gaddafi possessed chemical weapons and would not hesitate to use them. Especially not when the capital Tripoli was threatened. "We call upon the international community and the UN, Gaddafi to stop the persecution of his plans in Tripoli," he said after a meeting with tribal leaders from the east to Libya in Al-Badhia.

"When he finally really under pressure, he is capable of anything. Gaddafi will leave only scorched earth. "Meanwhile in Rome were circulating rumors that Gaddafi was preparing his private plane to get from Libya to sell in a friendly African country. The president said the Organisation of Arab exile in Italy, Foad Aodi and spoke of "very, very credible" sources.

Estimates of the Foreign Office to keep still about 160 German in Libya. To rescue a German citizen are, according to the Ministry of Defence three German naval ships on the way to the Libyan coast. According to the European Commission's 5000 European citizens have already been brought back from Libya, and about as many were still there on, a spokesman said in Brussels.

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