Thursday, March 3, 2011

Opponents believe a military council to meet Gaddafi

Jorge Fuentelsaz. Benghazi (Libya) .- The Libyan Revolutionary Coalition appears to have closed the door to dialogue open tried Muammar Gaddafi yesterday and announced today the formation of a military council in charge of defending the people and territory across Libya. The member of the rebel coalition Bugaighis Salwa said to Reuters today that "Gaddafi has already spoken on the streets" in reference to the brutal suppression of protests.

His words responding to the appointment yesterday, by Qaddafi, the leader of the foreign intelligence service, Buzid Durda, responsible for dialogue with the rebels east of the country, according to the Qatari channel Al Jazeera. Bugaighis, one of the 20 members of the Coalition of the Revolution of February 17, told Efe that did not even have news on this new initiative of Gaddafi.

The coalition, based in Benghazi, the second largest city, is responsible for coordinating the activities of other people's councils that manage the populations under rebel control. Lacking even a visible leader and a definite organization, maintains contacts for the formation of a temporary National Council representatives also of Tripoli, which is responsible for the political transition to statehood.

For its part, also a member of Amal coalition Bugaighis stressed that "the current agenda is military planning," which has become "one of the priorities." Bughaighis, who insisted that the agenda did not include negotiations with the regime of Muammar Gaddafi expressed his fears regarding a possible involvement of mercenaries.

"Now they come to us troops from Darfur and Sudan. (...) If we are forced , ask for foreign intervention, "said a member of the coalition of the revolution that has already officially rejected any foreign military intervention. The rebel coalition has announced the formation of a military council in Benghazi, the second largest city, to "defend the people of Libya and Libya's internationally recognized borders of any attack." The Coalition of the Revolution of February 17 said in a statement today that it will remain in constant contact with the new military body, consisting of fifteen officers.

To this end it has appointed three people whose mission is to such coordination. The council, formed last night, will "prepare the defense plan of Libya as well as military support to defend the sons of the Libyan people in the liberated areas and in the capital, and also in other areas continue under the control of the oppressor and the mercenaries.

" In addition, the statement calls on all military to immediately join their units to meet its duty to defend the people and the country's unity. The formation of this military body coincides with an alleged threat to bomb Gaddafi demonstrators Zauiya City, 50 kilometers west of the capital, and the warning issued today by the U.S.

Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, that Libya is at risk of a protracted civil war. " Nalut Zauiya residents and also in western Libya and controlled by the opposition, supporters fear that Muammar Gaddafi and try to recover those places have told Al Jazeera that are willing to defend with their weapons.

"There is no fighting now, but people are preparing for another confrontation," he said in a telephone statement Adel, a resident of the city of Nalut, about 300 kilometers southwest of Tripoli. On February 16 he began a popular uprising in Benghazi, which spread throughout the country and has been harshly repressed by the regime's security forces.

Large areas of the country have fallen into the hands of the rebel opposition, but still maintains control Gaddafi on three major cities: Tripoli, in the northwest, Sebha, in the southwest and Sirte in north-central. What will the opponents? The rebel coalition that controls the east of Libya announced today its position on the situation in the country, having formed a military council of defense, coalition sources said, reports Reuters.

The spokesman called the Revolutionary Coalition February 17, Abdelhafiz Hoga, told Efe that today there will be a press conference "important" at 16.00 local time (14.00 GMT). The rebel coalition has announced the formation of a military council in Benghazi, the second largest city, to "defend the people of Libya and Libya's internationally recognized borders of any attack." In a statement, the coalition claimed that the council will "prepare the defense plan of Libya as well as military support to defend the sons of the Libyan people in the liberated areas and in the capital." In this area east of the country between 317 and 347 people died, including 15 and 28 February as a result of the harsh repression of the security forces against protesters demanding the fall of Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi.

As announced yesterday at a news conference doctors in three hospitals in Benghazi, the country's main eastern city, only in this town, the second in the country, died between 220 and 250 people and injured 1,932 others.

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