Gaddafi Envoy visits London as tensions mount in Libya

Moises saman for the New York TimesA woman wore a portrait of Colonel Qadhafi during a rally in his support at the Rixos Hotel in Tripoli on Thursday. ?More photos?

TRIPOLI, Libya - A senior secret talks in London with the British authorities decided sons consultant by a COL Muammar el-Qaddafi, said a friend of the aide on Friday, confusion and anxiety add swirling Tripoli regime around the after the defection of a Senior Minister and the departure of an other senior figure to Cairo.

Outside Benghazi, Libya supporters as rocket launcher cheered opposition on Thursday, a day inconclusive fighting in the East to the front in the vicinity of Brega led. ?More photos?

Word was the hidden diplomacy with preparation of the rebels in the East of the country, what seemed another attempt, the dynamics of soil of Colonel Qadhafi fight the country's coastal highway troops along snatch, the setting for the days of see-sawing advances and draws.

Hundreds of rebels that Colonel Qadhafi fall massed about 15 miles east of the oil port of Brega on Friday, steels itself for an advance against the Government forces the city holds after a chaotic retreat from the city on Wednesday.

If the rebels on Friday appeared collected, after failing to forward press in on the day, heavier weapons, including several rocket launchers, although some young men in the cavalcade of pickup trucks and civilian cars unarmed bringing.

It was not immediately clear, such as the military operations on the political and diplomatic relation, of which many on United Kingdom centered - maneuver from allies in the search for Colonel Qadhafi one of the leading coalition makes force. Mohammed Ismail, a senior consultant of Seif al-Islam a Colonel Qadhafi, sons, traveled to London for talks with British officials in recent days, the friend said in London on Friday in exchange for anonymity, brief reporters speak because he has not authorized. The nature and exact timing of the contact was not clear.

The friend said Mr Ismail planned to return to Tripoli after his talks. Word of the possible Overture welter rumor, coincided with one more officials planned to defect. A Foreign Ministry spokesman who spoke in exchange for anonymity see Department specific procedures, said: "we intend no running commentary on our contact Libyan officials are."

On Thursday said British Foreign Secretary William Hague may try he unsettle the Tripoli regime in contact with the most high-profile defector Foreign Minister Moussa Koussa, have had days before he fled to London on Wednesday. The fog of surrounding likely defector rumor was always darker than a more senior official, Ali Abdussalam el-Treki, to have defected was reported, denied this.

Mr Treki said in an interview in Cairo on Friday he had not the Egyptian capital of an authorized Mission travelled but not against the Government of Qadhafi has enabled.

"There are people who want to unsubscribe to one side or the other, simply, they want to only on part of this situation," said Mr Treki. "A lot of Libyans think like me." You think our country are to be saved we may this not kill and fight. All fight should be stopped.

He said no one had in Tripoli asked him to arrange a cease-fire and he was still teaching. He gave up direct criticism of Colonel Qadhafi. It has formal reference to the terms, will be looking for the Tripoli could. Speak an official, this week on condition of anonymity of Libyan Foreign Ministry suggested that the solution to the conflict between the Qadhafi Government and the Western powers would be negotiated. The official brushed off a suggestion that Colonel Qadhafi could leave or that he could beat a treaty with the rebels.

British officials have frequently stressed that no defector be granted immunity from prosecution. On Prime Minister David Cameron on Thursday called a press conference the withdrawal of Mr Koussa as "br?ckelnden an exciting story about the despair and fear at the top of the Qadhafi regime and rotten."

In the sign of the Assembly, a shootout before dawn broke connection tensions within the capital on Friday in the neighborhood outside Colonel Qadhafi. The shots heard for blocks around the city and two witnesses, speaking on condition of anonymity for their safety, said that she saw "Pools of blood" in the streets, the crews later adjusted triggered.

The reasons for the dispute was unclear. The Gaddafi Government assault rifles armament was civilians around the country with Kalashnikov, and guns are increasingly visible on the streets. In some areas outside the capital as Colonel Qadhafi faithful, the guns seem now "as common as mobile phones," as say a Libyan.

David D. Kirkpatrick reported from Tripoli, C. j. Chivers of Ajdabiya, Libya, and Alan Cowell from Paris. Neil MacFarquhar contributed reporting from Cairo, John F. Burns and Landon Thomas Jr. from London; and Marlise Simons of Paris.

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