Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Libya ~ France and its partners are working on drafting a new UN resolution on Libya

25/08/2011

France and its partners are working on drafting a new UN resolution on Libya

Libyan Dissident: Gaddafi is hiding somewhere in Tripoli and the occurrence of clashes in the capital

TRIPOLI, A spokesman for the rebels on Wednesday that Libyan forces loyal to Colonel Muammar al-Gaddafi, Tripoli bombing areas including the central Bab Azizia compound which was dominated by opponents on Tuesday.

The spokesman, who asked not to be named, there is a bombardment of the door and the Azizia Mansoura and the other near a hotel Rixos.


Most of the shelling by the remnants of the existing system in Abu-Salim.
Another official in the Libyan opposition, told Reuters that Colonel Muammar Gaddafi is still present somewhere in Tripoli and there are clashes going on Wednesday in a southern district of the capital may be hiding out.

The official, who gave his name as Abdul Rahman, told Reuters by telephone from Tripoli «We believe that Gaddafi is still hiding somewhere in Tripoli. Likely to be in the Green Mountain ...

Have been fighting in the area of the plateau green. Meanwhile, Abdul Hafeez Goukh Vice President of the Transitional National Assembly that the Libyan Muammar Gaddafi should be tried in Libya before being handed over to the International Criminal Court.

The Goukh Egyptian television that the government Gaddafi, who accused him of the International Criminal Court for war crimes in May, is still in Libya and is not likely to escape.

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He added that Gaddafi is still in Libya, if not in Tripoli might have infiltrated to the center of the country or to the south, and We are dedicated to the families of Gaddafi and his trial in Libya before his trial in Criminal Court.

For his part, a Reuters reporter said he could hear the sound of heavy firing from the area surrounding the Rixos the Libyan capital Tripoli on Wednesday.

The reporter, who was close to the hotel that he heard the voice of small arms fire and the sound of anti-aircraft weapons are weapons used by the parties to the conflict in Libya to attack targets on the ground.


There is a group of foreign correspondents in the Rixos Hotel and prevent gunmen loyal to Colonel Muammar Gaddafi his departure.

Meanwhile, a source of A French diplomat said Wednesday that France and its partners, UN working on a draft resolution that allows the release of Libyan assets and the lifting of sanctions. The source added that the decision is still in its early stages and would be considered in the coming days, during talks in Qatar, Turkey and New York.

He said it difficult to speak accurately details of the resolution, adding that it will address the issue of sanctions and the release of funds, but without a timetable.

For his part, said a U.S. official said the planners NATO find it more difficult to identify targets in the Libyan capital Tripoli, due to movement of opposition forces throughout the city at a time through the Minister U.S. Defense Leon Panetta expressed hope that NATO will soon begin to end its mission in Libya.

According to data from the U.S. Department of Defense (Pentagon) United States stepped up to the task of providing NATO drones and other air capabilities of its air strikes on Libya during the last ten days.

But not carried out by U.S. air strikes on 22 and 23 August.

The U.S. official to a position of overlap between the forces of the Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi in Tripoli, the opposition forces which hold the ability to target sites without the risk of inflicting casualties among civilians.

The official, who asked not to be named, said the opposition fighters appeared to move freely in the other across the Libyan capital, and that despite the fact that Qaddafi's troops confined to some pockets, but their positions are less clear than before. As there is no longer eligible for the goals of the bombing campaign after months of aerial bombardment of Libya.

Yesterday and swept the first Tuesday Gaddafi rebel compound, smashing symbols of his reign, which lasted 42 years and declared the end of the dictatorship and continued to search for Gaddafi and his sons. He repeated the Pentagon confirmed that Gaddafi did not leave the country.

He said U.S. Defense Secretary in a speech at the Naval Post-graduate School in Monterey, Calif., said the situation in Libya is still fluid, however expressed hope that the task is initiated by NATO in Libya in March, has entered its final stages.

Said Panetta, who until last July as director of the CIA hope that this task is approaching its end. In remarks later to him at the Institute of Language defense Panetta said it was clear that Qaddafi's regime is collapsing, but he warned that the situation «is still a serious».

U.S. officials said that the United States does not intend to deploy any troops on the ground in any part of a subsequent operation to save the peace.


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