Thursday, March 3, 2011

Libya: warplanes attack once in oil port Brega

Gaddafi's troops attacked the soldiers of Libyan fighter jets on Thursday held by rebels have Brega oil port in the east of the country attacked. The eyewitnesses. It should not have been possible to identify the specific target of attack. Most likely, if it were a runway, which forms part of a massive oil facility.

On Wednesday, the supporters of the protest movement an attack by troops of the Libyan leader Muammar al Gaddafi in the region Brega Adschdabija had beaten back. The fighting dragged on for several hours, an employee of a morgue in the nearby town Adschdabija said the number of people killed here on Thursday has risen to 14.


In a botched evacuation in Libya, meanwhile, three Dutch soldiers of a militia of Gaddafi's regime has fallen into their hands. That the Ministry of Defence in The Hague ruled on Thursday. It appears that the soldiers were flying in a helicopter of the anchored off Libya Dutch navy ship to the Libyan city of Sirte MS Tromp, there are two fixed countrymen to pick up.

After landing, the helicopter crew was from a militia group loyal Gaddafi attacked and taken prisoner. Via the release of the Dutch intensive negotiations, said a ministry spokesman. The incident, reported on Thursday the newspaper "De Telegraaf", had already taken place last Sunday. He had been kept secret for security reasons until now, it said.

Libya, because of the conflict, the EU foreign ministers will on 10 March come together for a special session. At a working lunch was to the Special Summit of the North African country on the following day to prepare, a spokeswoman for EU foreign minister Catherine Ashton said on Thursday in Brussels.

The EU Heads of State and Government at the meeting want to find a common approach to the revolt against Libya's Muammar el Gaddafi and the refugee crisis triggered by the conflict. Also to be discussed a strategy to break into North Africa and the Arab world. Libyan insurgents were fighting in the east of the country trapped under which several soldiers and officers of the army.

The news channel Al-Arabiya on Thursday showed pictures of the military, the insurgents were reportedly killed during the battle the day before in the oil city of Al-Brega in his hands. have in the more eastern city of Tobruk, a unit attached to the naval insurgents, it said. Meanwhile, make the organization of the rebels in the east of progress.

The Libyan opposition in exile announced in the city of Benghazi is a new brigade, called "Brigade 17th was founded in February ". The transitional government in Benghazi explained that the transport of other foreign mercenaries to Libya should be absolutely prevented. For foreign armies and air attacks were justified.

"This would be no foreign military intervention on Libyan soil," said a spokesman for the committee. He did not respond to the proposal by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to send an international "peace delegation" to Libya, which is to mediate between Gaddafi and the rebels. At the Arab League in Cairo, had on Wednesday night condemned the attacks of the Gadhafi troops on civilians sharply, it said on Thursday that Chávez plan has positive elements, it will among the Arab governments are also under discussion.

In the Libyan capital Tripoli on Thursday it remained quiet. According to eyewitnesses, many banks and businesses were open. The Qaddafi regime had already spent a few days ago the slogan: ". Everything has to look normal as possible" against Gaddafi, meanwhile, is under investigation for crimes against humanity in Libya.

The chief prosecutor told the International Criminal Court (ICC), Luis Moreno-Ocampo, on Thursday in The Hague. Against Gaddafi's sons and other members of his clan to be included because of the violence against peaceful demonstrators investigations. This also includes the chiefs of various security services.

The decision as to whether open proceedings and arrest warrants are issued is up to the judges.

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