Forces loyal to Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi on Tuesday were concentrated in the west, residents said, and the United States said it is taking its air and naval forces near Libya. Residents fear that the pro-Gaddafi preparing an attack to regain control of Nalut, about 60 kilometers from the Tunisian border in western Libya, which is held by opponents seeking to get power Gaddafi.
U.S. and other foreign governments on Monday discussed options for addressing the situation in Libya, Muammar Qaddafi as the leader scoffed at the threat posed to his government the progress of a popular uprising. The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Susan Rice, said that Gaddafi is "disconnected from reality" is "massacring its own people" and is unfit to lead.
Rice said Washington was in talks with its partners in NATO and other allies about military options. Washington also said it had blocked access to Gaddafi and his family of some 30,000 million dollars in U.S. assets. British Prime Minister, David Cameron, said his country would work with allies to impose an air exclusion zone in Libya in order to protect his people from military attacks by the Government of Gaddafi.
Gaddafi has rejected calls to resign and downplayed the strength of the revolt against his term of 41 years ended with their control over eastern Libya and come to the country's capital, Tripoli. "All my people love me. They would die to protect me," he said Monday at the U.S. television network ABC and the BBC.
The leader denied using its air force to attack the protesters but said the planes had bombed military sites and ammunition depots. He also said young people had received drugs from Al Qaeda, and then was taken to the streets. Libyan forces had orders not to shoot, he said. Gaddafi, 68, was relaxed and laughed at times during the interview.
Rice ambassador called it "delusional." It is difficult for reporters to move in Libya and the reports of fighting were difficult to verify independently. A resident in Nalut, Sami, told Reuters by telephone: "They have surrounded the area near the Tunisian border (...) They came with heavy machine guns mounted on wheeled vehicles and brought dozens of men with light weapons." "They said they came to hunt the killers.
Nalut But people do not. Everyone is on alert for a possible attack by those forces to retake the city." On Monday, witnesses in Misrata, a city located 200 kilometers east of Tripoli, and Zawiya, a strategic area of petroleum refining 50 miles west, said government forces were assembling or preparing attacks.
"A plane was shot down this morning when shooting at the local radio station. The protesters seized the crew," he told Reuters by telephone a witness identified as Mohamed Misrata. The witness also indicated that carrying out a battle for control of the military airbase. A Libyan government source denied the report.
A resident of Zawiya, named Ibrahim, told Reuters by telephone that he expected "attacks at any time by brigades belonging (the son of Gaddafi) Jamis.'re On the outskirts of the city, about five to seven miles away. There are many of them. " In the capital, the last bastion of Gaddafi, several people were killed and others injured on Monday when forces loyal to the leader opened fire to disperse a protest in the neighborhood Tajoura, reported the Moroccan daily Quryna.
Foreign governments are putting increasing pressure on Gaddafi leaves office, hoping to end clashes that left at least 1,000 people and restore order in a country that contributes 2% of global oil production . The Security Council United Nations imposed sanctions on Qaddafi and other Libyan officials, an arms embargo and asset freeze of the country.
European Union governments on Monday approved sanctions against Gaddafi in Brussels, implementing the UN resolution sooner than expected. The president of Venezuela, Hugo Chávez, proposed international mediation efforts to find a peaceful solution to the uprising against Gaddafi, his friend and political ally.
The riots in neighboring Tunisia and Egypt helped fuel resentment against the four decades often bloody political repression of Gaddafi, in addition to its failure to use the country's oil wealth to fight poverty and lack of opportunities. Regional experts expect that the rebels come to take the capital and kill or capture Gaddafi, but added that the veteran leader has the potential to foment chaos and civil war, which he and his sons have been warned.
Opposition forces are in control of oil facilities, which are mostly located in eastern 
U.S. and other foreign governments on Monday discussed options for addressing the situation in Libya, Muammar Qaddafi as the leader scoffed at the threat posed to his government the progress of a popular uprising. The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Susan Rice, said that Gaddafi is "disconnected from reality" is "massacring its own people" and is unfit to lead.
Rice said Washington was in talks with its partners in NATO and other allies about military options. Washington also said it had blocked access to Gaddafi and his family of some 30,000 million dollars in U.S. assets. British Prime Minister, David Cameron, said his country would work with allies to impose an air exclusion zone in Libya in order to protect his people from military attacks by the Government of Gaddafi.
Gaddafi has rejected calls to resign and downplayed the strength of the revolt against his term of 41 years ended with their control over eastern Libya and come to the country's capital, Tripoli. "All my people love me. They would die to protect me," he said Monday at the U.S. television network ABC and the BBC.
The leader denied using its air force to attack the protesters but said the planes had bombed military sites and ammunition depots. He also said young people had received drugs from Al Qaeda, and then was taken to the streets. Libyan forces had orders not to shoot, he said. Gaddafi, 68, was relaxed and laughed at times during the interview.
Rice ambassador called it "delusional." It is difficult for reporters to move in Libya and the reports of fighting were difficult to verify independently. A resident in Nalut, Sami, told Reuters by telephone: "They have surrounded the area near the Tunisian border (...) They came with heavy machine guns mounted on wheeled vehicles and brought dozens of men with light weapons." "They said they came to hunt the killers.
Nalut But people do not. Everyone is on alert for a possible attack by those forces to retake the city." On Monday, witnesses in Misrata, a city located 200 kilometers east of Tripoli, and Zawiya, a strategic area of petroleum refining 50 miles west, said government forces were assembling or preparing attacks.
"A plane was shot down this morning when shooting at the local radio station. The protesters seized the crew," he told Reuters by telephone a witness identified as Mohamed Misrata. The witness also indicated that carrying out a battle for control of the military airbase. A Libyan government source denied the report.
A resident of Zawiya, named Ibrahim, told Reuters by telephone that he expected "attacks at any time by brigades belonging (the son of Gaddafi) Jamis.'re On the outskirts of the city, about five to seven miles away. There are many of them. " In the capital, the last bastion of Gaddafi, several people were killed and others injured on Monday when forces loyal to the leader opened fire to disperse a protest in the neighborhood Tajoura, reported the Moroccan daily Quryna.
Foreign governments are putting increasing pressure on Gaddafi leaves office, hoping to end clashes that left at least 1,000 people and restore order in a country that contributes 2% of global oil production . The Security Council United Nations imposed sanctions on Qaddafi and other Libyan officials, an arms embargo and asset freeze of the country.
European Union governments on Monday approved sanctions against Gaddafi in Brussels, implementing the UN resolution sooner than expected. The president of Venezuela, Hugo Chávez, proposed international mediation efforts to find a peaceful solution to the uprising against Gaddafi, his friend and political ally.
The riots in neighboring Tunisia and Egypt helped fuel resentment against the four decades often bloody political repression of Gaddafi, in addition to its failure to use the country's oil wealth to fight poverty and lack of opportunities. Regional experts expect that the rebels come to take the capital and kill or capture Gaddafi, but added that the veteran leader has the potential to foment chaos and civil war, which he and his sons have been warned.
Opposition forces are in control of oil facilities, which are mostly located in eastern
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