Cairo .- gadafistas troops today launched an air and ground attack on the Ras Lanuf oil enclave, some 350 km west of Benghazi, according to the Qatari television network Al Jazeera. According to a correspondent of the channel, aviation loyal to Colonel Muammar al-Gaddafi has bombed rebel positions in the oil terminal, with facilities, he said, contain dangerous deposits, so that its explosion could cause a disaster of difficult to calculate.
The new offensive gadafista, it is unknown whether the Government seeks to recover for the city of Tripoli and the port or is it just an attempt to test the rebel, with the deployment of ground combat means that so far have proved superior in area to those revolutionaries. Militants yesterday and withstood the harsh attack gadafistas troops, who remained six sorties cornered the rebels in Ras Lanuf defense.
The consequences of the attacks gadafistas addition to the casualties, was the evacuation and exodus of the inhabitants of the oil terminal has the capacity to export more than 200,000 barrels a day. Information without contrast quoted by Al Jazeera talking about 21 deaths in the last hours in the fighting, but the figure is difficult to corroborate.
Yesterday traces of the fighting and bombings in the city were evident by the absence of its inhabitants and SUV loaded with family belongings and all the belongings they could carry in their flight along the road that leads to Ajdabiya, 200 miles this, in the rebel-secured territory. And joined the neighbors to the left past weekend Ben Jawad, the principal and where the fighting was contained and repulsed by the forces gadafistas breakthrough on Gaddafi's hometown, Sirte.
Benghazi rebels lose contact with Al Zauiya Libyan rebel opposition said today that takes almost two days without contact with the city of Al Zauiya, 92 miles southwest of Tripoli and besieged for five days by the brigades of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, reports EFE. "The regime controls communications," said Efe information board member National Transition Council Acting (QNA), Bara al-Khatib.
A spokesman for the CNTR, Isam al Geriani, also pointed to the satellite communication works with many problems. The two sources believe that the Libyan armed forces continue shelling the town, subject to an intense siege for six days. Moreover, on the eastern front, Gadhafi troops have launched a new attack by land and air today against Ras Lanuf oil enclave, some 350 km west of Benghazi, according to the Qatari television network Al Jazeera.
According to a correspondent of the Arabic channel, aviation has bombed Qaddafi loyal to rebel positions in the oil terminal, with facilities, he said, contain dangerous deposits, whose explosion could cause a disaster of difficult to calculate. In this sense, Geriani told a group of journalists who only yesterday the rebels had suffered 40 casualties among its ranks due to air raids and said they feared more casualties because the fighters lack of preparation.
"Plot colonialist," said Gadhafi Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi has accused Western countries of carrying out a "colonialist plot" against his country and ruled out negotiations with the National Council have been the rebels in Benghazi, which denied any legitimacy and identified with the terrorism of Al Qaeda, reports EFE.
In an interview broadcast today by the French television channel "LCI" and recorded last night in Tripoli, Gaddafi charged that Western countries "want to re-colonize Libya," citing in particular the U.S., the UK and France. Gadhafi laughed when asked about the possibility of negotiating with the National Council and said that "there is a National Council." He noted that former members of his government who have joined the Council in fact "have been detained by force" and "threatened" death, so that their only way out was to engage the insurgents.
"They are not free, they are prisoners," he said before denying his people to fight "is a lie of the colonialist countries. It is a colonialist plot." Regarding the possibility of sanctions against France for the attitude it has taken against his regime, he replied with a "see" and said he did not rule out travel to Paris again in the future as it did in the past on official visits. 
The new offensive gadafista, it is unknown whether the Government seeks to recover for the city of Tripoli and the port or is it just an attempt to test the rebel, with the deployment of ground combat means that so far have proved superior in area to those revolutionaries. Militants yesterday and withstood the harsh attack gadafistas troops, who remained six sorties cornered the rebels in Ras Lanuf defense.
The consequences of the attacks gadafistas addition to the casualties, was the evacuation and exodus of the inhabitants of the oil terminal has the capacity to export more than 200,000 barrels a day. Information without contrast quoted by Al Jazeera talking about 21 deaths in the last hours in the fighting, but the figure is difficult to corroborate.
Yesterday traces of the fighting and bombings in the city were evident by the absence of its inhabitants and SUV loaded with family belongings and all the belongings they could carry in their flight along the road that leads to Ajdabiya, 200 miles this, in the rebel-secured territory. And joined the neighbors to the left past weekend Ben Jawad, the principal and where the fighting was contained and repulsed by the forces gadafistas breakthrough on Gaddafi's hometown, Sirte.
Benghazi rebels lose contact with Al Zauiya Libyan rebel opposition said today that takes almost two days without contact with the city of Al Zauiya, 92 miles southwest of Tripoli and besieged for five days by the brigades of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, reports EFE. "The regime controls communications," said Efe information board member National Transition Council Acting (QNA), Bara al-Khatib.
A spokesman for the CNTR, Isam al Geriani, also pointed to the satellite communication works with many problems. The two sources believe that the Libyan armed forces continue shelling the town, subject to an intense siege for six days. Moreover, on the eastern front, Gadhafi troops have launched a new attack by land and air today against Ras Lanuf oil enclave, some 350 km west of Benghazi, according to the Qatari television network Al Jazeera.
According to a correspondent of the Arabic channel, aviation has bombed Qaddafi loyal to rebel positions in the oil terminal, with facilities, he said, contain dangerous deposits, whose explosion could cause a disaster of difficult to calculate. In this sense, Geriani told a group of journalists who only yesterday the rebels had suffered 40 casualties among its ranks due to air raids and said they feared more casualties because the fighters lack of preparation.
"Plot colonialist," said Gadhafi Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi has accused Western countries of carrying out a "colonialist plot" against his country and ruled out negotiations with the National Council have been the rebels in Benghazi, which denied any legitimacy and identified with the terrorism of Al Qaeda, reports EFE.
In an interview broadcast today by the French television channel "LCI" and recorded last night in Tripoli, Gaddafi charged that Western countries "want to re-colonize Libya," citing in particular the U.S., the UK and France. Gadhafi laughed when asked about the possibility of negotiating with the National Council and said that "there is a National Council." He noted that former members of his government who have joined the Council in fact "have been detained by force" and "threatened" death, so that their only way out was to engage the insurgents.
"They are not free, they are prisoners," he said before denying his people to fight "is a lie of the colonialist countries. It is a colonialist plot." Regarding the possibility of sanctions against France for the attitude it has taken against his regime, he replied with a "see" and said he did not rule out travel to Paris again in the future as it did in the past on official visits.
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