Friday, February 25, 2011

Qaddafi remains, but the people 'free' more cities

Cairo / Tripoli (Writing / AP) .- The regime of Libyan dictator Gaddafi Muanmar increasingly lost support within and outside the country and are losing control of large cities in favor of the popular revolt in Libya. According to the Qatari television station Al Jazeera, Gadhafi could address the public through television as his third message to the population.

The same sources indicate that the dictator has no intention of leaving office and will respond to the violence unleashed against him and his revolution. " The last of these could be Zuara, just 120 miles west of Tripoli, where according to Egyptian workers have informed an international agency, the opposition militias have taken control.

Other news sources have confirmed that there have been attacks on villages and towns just 50 kilometers from the capital, where presumably resides Gaddafi and has been entrenched with a group of hundreds of soldiers loyal to the regime. The dictator has also lost control of the cities of Benghazi (the second largest city), Derna, Tobruk, Zawiyah or Misurata.

In addition, opponents have called for a mass demonstration on Friday in Tripoli to mimic the revolt in Egypt that killed Hosni Mubarak to break Qaddafi, even if the fighting rages today in Tripoli, the capital, in the coming hours the Dictator could remain in office or giving up. Attacks and civilian deaths on the outskirts of Tripoli killed several civilians and at least 50 wounded were reported today in the town of Zawiyah, west of Tripoli, not far from the border with Tunisia, after the armed forces loyal to attack Libyan leader demonstrators, according to the Qatari Al Jazeera collected by Efe.

Citing medical sources, the network ensures that at least 7 dead and 40 injured have been admitted already in the local hospital. Khaled Ahmed, a witness Zawiyah, said by telephone that forces loyal to Gaddafi in the early morning attacked a group of protesters and the death toll may be "dozens." According to this witness, the town near the Tunisian border, is for two or three days "completely" under the control of protesters.

After the attack, tens of thousands of people have invaded the streets, including several women, to protest against such action and deal with offenders. Khaled said that Gaddafi's forces, among which were numerous mercenaries in armored vehicles and machine guns and heavy artillery used in their attack on the city.

The protesters are up in arms against the Libyan regime control about a third of the eastern part of the country, including Libya's second city of Benghazi. Some reports indicate that also have control of several towns in the West, although most of this part of the country still controlled by forces loyal to the regime.

In the city of Tobruk, hundreds of people demonstrated this morning in favor of democracy and against dictatorship. In the town there were three days of riots, which killed four people. Where it remains dead in the streets is in the city of Benghazi. Although the regime has lost control in the cities of East and West, the self-styled colonel and leader of the revolution in Libya after 41 years of strict control of power has no intention to relinquish power when .

Quite the opposite: to continue repressing the demonstrators with gunfire, rockets and air attacks from the air jets. Hydrocarbon sector Asked about the security of the oil industry, the country's economic engine that brings together much of the foreign investment, "Sadi has been limited to ensure that the Army will be sent to protect installations, in the case necessary.

"If we listened to anything, would send a few battalions. The Army is still very strong, when people see you are afraid," he said. The situation in Tripoli on the streets of Tripoli is only police, military and militia SSA, as reported by various news sources that have come to the Libyan capital.

Gaddafi's men roam the deserted streets armed, as reported by the British broadcaster BBC. According to witnesses cited by the New York Times, in Tripoli reign of terror and hear constant gunfire. In eastern cities, however, is not a single military. Rather, a single uniform, many soldiers have been stripped of his official dress and help control the Libyan territory in civilian clothes and were heavily armed with Kalashnikovs.

In Tripoli, the regime's opponents prepare for their first organized protest for Friday. Apparently, the angry speech on Tuesday, in which Gaddafi has threatened to pursue "every house" to "rats that spread the revolution" - has only increased the determination of the demonstrators. Rewards for exposing the population The General People's Committee for Public Security of Libya has launched an appeal for demonstrators to surrender their weapons and offered rewards to those who report on the leaders of these riots.

"Those who surrender his weapon and repent will be exempt from being prosecuted," the agency said in a statement read by a soldier on state television, reports Europa Press. The Committee has urged all citizens to "cooperate and report" on those who "lead to young people or provide them with equipment or hallucinogenic drugs, and has offered these employees a" financial reward ".

Libyan forces loyal to the regime of Muammar Gaddafi have violently suppressed opposition demonstrations demanding the departure of the leader. Gadhafi has lost control of the country, especially in the eastern part of Libya, where the second North African country's largest city, Benghazi.

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