Saturday, February 26, 2011

Muammar el Gaddafi, "We will fight and we shall overcome"

In a speech in Tripoli, Gaddafi calls his followers to fight on Libyan leader Muammar el Gaddafi has again shown to the public on Friday and called on his followers to armed struggle. "We will fight and we will prevail," Gaddafi said, according to television pictures spread on the green square in the capital Tripoli.

The weapons caches in the country would "open to arm the entire people." Also assured the ruling for more than 40 years in power to the people "love Gaddafi". After the speech, there were clashes in the evening again.


There would then be the first time protesters from both camps went off together. On Tuesday, Gaddafi had a telephonic address on state television appealed to the people, in which he declared, "revolutionary leader" in Libya to stay. After the Friday prayer before thousands of people had demonstrated against Gaddafi.

Foreign television channels showed images of peaceful mass demonstrations in Benghazi and Derna in the east of the country. In the capital, Tripoli, the situation pointed to eyewitness reports in the afternoon. Security forces fired, according to news agencies on government opponents, who tried in great number to reach the city center, where Gadhafi's followers demonstrated.

The news agency Reuters reported that by the afternoon had been shot dead five demonstrators. Libya is still divided. Government opponents appeared to consolidate their control of the East. Only Misrata on Friday it will still armed conflicts of Gaddafi's supporters and government opponents have given.

At the border crossing to Tunisia, said foreigners fleeing the BBC that were present on the road from Tripoli to the western border of Gaddafi's followers still at control points. You phones, cameras and memory cards were removed, apparently to avoid reports about the real situation. It remained unclear, the situation in the western city zawiya where it had come on Thursday to fight.

It was from 20 to 100 deaths mentioned. Residents said on Friday the network al-Jazeera "thousands," demanded in the center of Gaddafi's resignation, explosions were heard. From Suwara have information to the transmitter, the state security forces withdrew completely. The security chief of Benghazi, Nuri al Obeidi told of an underground detention facility.

The prisoners were discovered in a former base commanded by a son, Khamis Gaddafi's military unit. In the 90 deserters were also liberated, which had refused to fire on opponents. The retired Libyan Justice Minister Abdel Galil, meanwhile, warned during a meeting with tribal leaders warned that Gaddafi could use biological and chemical weapons against government opponents.

He called Al Baida in the international community to do everything to prevent that. Gaddafi had indeed agreed in 2003, on nuclear, biological and chemical weapons do without. Foreign inspectors found after chemical weapons and materials to produce biological weapons. In 2004 there were, according to the The Hague office for the chemical weapons ban (OPCW), several hundred thousand tons of materials which were used for the production of chemical weapons including mustard gas and sarin.

Under OPCW supervision while several thousand bombs were destroyed, which should be filled with chemicals. But Libya had end-2010 for information of the OPCW more than 20 tons of mustard gas. Libyan demonstrators by government troops in the liberated city of Tobruk threatened on state television on Friday, an imam with the opponents of Gaddafi's wrath of God.

In the cities of the East other preachers referred to, however, the protests as a legitimate struggle against a tyrant. To dampen the anger among the population, the government announced to increase the wages and salaries of civil servants by up to 150 percent. Each family should also receive the equivalent of 400 dollars, it said on state television.

Gaddafi's son Saif al Islam promised political changes. give for the demands of the demonstrators solutions, he told a reporter of the news channel CNN Türk, travel to Tripoli had been allowed. Residents reported in Tripoli, the gasoline was rationed. The UN World Food Program fears difficulties in food supply.

It would not get enough food into the country, said a spokesman. Meanwhile, Gaddafi lost in their own ranks on to supporters. The Libyan ambassador to France and UNESCO joined in protest against the "repression" back. They joined the "revolution of the people", and told Salah Abdul Salam al Galali Saren.

Even Qaddafi's cousin Ahmed al Gadhaf Dam broke away from the revolutionary leader. He was considered one of the most important confidant of the heads of state.

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