Gaddafi taunts as NATO seeks more Jets strike Forces

April 15, 2011, 4: 21 am EDT by Flavia Krause-Jackson and Patrick Donahue

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April 15 (Bloomberg)--a request by the head of NATO for more attacks on the ground, aircraft to target forces Muammar Gaddafi has been rejected by the United States and the France as the Libyan leader has shown on TV of State pumping his fists in the air through the roof open opening a SUV money in Tripoli.President Barack ObamaU.K. First Minister David Cameron and the French President Nicolas Sarkozy said jointly that allow Qathafi stay in power "would be a perverse betrayal." "As long as Qadhafi came to power, NATO and its partners in the coalition must maintain their operations so that civilians are protected and the pressure on the regime relies," they wrote in a letter published in European newspapers today.The boundaries of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization air campaign have become obvious as forces loyal to Qadhafi intensified their assault in the third largest city of the Libya, Misrata and pressed their attack on the rebels near the town of port oil of Brega. The rebels said 47 people were killed in Misrata yesterday by the bombing of regime, Al Jazeera television reported. "" We need a few attack aircraft, ground the Hunter for more accuracy for air - ground missions ", of the NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said yesterday at a meeting of the Ministers for Foreign Affairs, 28 of NATO and leaders of other nations allied in Berlin. Only five countries of NATO, led by the France and United Kingdom, are known to be targeting Qathafi ground forces. Ministers held talks today in the German capital. Germany member of NATO has refused to send jets to serve in the mission of the RisesThe Libye.Conflit of oil helped push oil almost the highest in three days in New York. Crude for delivery was at $108.37 may a barrel, up 26 cents, at 3: 19 Singapore time in e-commerce on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Prices have increased by 27% from a year ago.The call to several fighter planes, which Rasmussen said has not been provided to a specific alliance member, came 10 days after that the United States withdrew its attack aircraft on the ground missions of protection of civilians. Us and French officials said that their Governments do not plan to provide additional combat aircraft and that it belongs to other allies to help. Foreign Minister Alain Juppe said France is already the largest contributor of air power to the mission and cannot send more jets. "Affair'Libya of Europe is"The case of Europe", and it is understandable that the United States is not to play a leading role, Minister of French defence Gérard Longuet said in an interview on LCI television. "The United States has two major obligations with the Iraq and the Afghanistan."The United States completed "strike missions" against army Qathafi earlier this month, depriving the NATO combat aircraft such as A-10 "Warthogs" and combat AC-130, which can be more efficient in the attack missions on the ground and higher-flying fighter aircraft. The United States continues to fly F-16 missions only against decreasing air defenses of the Libya, as well as providing a variety of aircraft from refueling in fuel, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance support.The United States made its fair share and see comment of Rasmussen who is seeking a greater role of the United States, said a U.S. official in Berlin who informed reporters under the terms that do not allow the use of his name. NATO did not have a formal additional U.S. aircraft request, spokesman for Pentagon Colonel Dave Lapan said in Washington.Qaddafi must GoObama, Sarkozy and Cameron said that even if the resolution of the Security Council of the United Nations authorizing military action to protect civilians does not reverse Qathafi "it is impossible to imagine a future for the Libya." "with Qathafi to power". "" As long as Qadhafi came to power, NATO and its partners in the coalition must maintain their operations so that civilians are protected and the pressure on the regime relies, "the leaders wrote in the letter which was published on the websites of the Times of London and the Figaro.NATO said yesterday that allies taking part in the conflict set three conditions for end to air strikes on Qathafi forces: to end all attacks by loyalists Qathafi against civilians, withdraw soldiers to bases and for assistance in the country.NATO Ministers met that a rebel drive of seven weeks to push Qathafi of the power has ground to a standstill."Allied SplitAllies are struggling to overcome the divisions on the output of Qathafi, in complaints by Great Britain, the France and the rebel commanders Libya that NATO is not done enough to force"."Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Qathafi us is testing our determination," said yesterday at the meeting. "As our mission continues, maintain our determination and unity grows more important."Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini said troops loyal to Qadhafi planting land mines around Misrata, a town 210 kilometres (130 km) is the capital, Tripoli, where he said 250 civilians were killed during the past two weeks. Italy support for establishing a humanitarian corridor to allow aid and supplies to reach the city, said Frattini.Les divisions in NATO are reflected in the fact that only 14 of the 28 members - members of NATO non-Sweden, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates United - are involved in the protective Unified operation to protect civilians.NATO air strikes against military since 19 Qathafi March have not stopped attacks by artillery and snipers isolated on cities such as Misrata, or enabled the rebels to take and hold permanently cities such as the oil port of Ras Lanuf.NATO said in a statement that he stole 58 "strike" strategic missions seeking potential targets on the ground on 13 April, 60 to down on 12 April. It said that its jets destroyed 13 bunkers, a tank and an armoured armoured in the Tripoli region and three multiple rocket launchers near Brega.

-With the help of Gregory Viscusi in Paris, Jeffrey Donovan in Rome, Tony Czuczka in Berlin, Ola Galal in Cairo and David Lerman, Justin Blum and Zaid Sabah Abd Alhamid in Washington. Editors: Leon Mangasarian, Alan Crawford.

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Gaddafi forces achieve goals key rebel-held city

Colonel Qadhafi forces began the attack late Saturday morning with barrages of rocket and artillery fire aimed, Ajdabiya's Center. Then, when smoke rose and confusion grew, began a gunfight they sent that troops a contingent of ground in the city.

The attack was more determined and as the ambushes and exchange of rocket and artillery fire last days organized. Barrage after the flood of incoming fire knocked and exploded within the city and loyalist troops advanced behind it. Thick smoke rose and drove from Central Ajdabiya and at noon, the doctors like explosions which shook the streets city hospital were evacuated.

Many of the rebels fled once again streaming north up to Benghazi, the capital of rebel their horns blaring. A rebel fighter, shouting at vehicles as they passed: "Qadhafi's forces are coming!" Go! Go! "Go!"

But a group of lightly armed local residents remained for their homes, fighting stop the loyalists in Istanbul Street in the Centre of the city.

"We killed 10 of them," said Halum said, in the morgue in the late afternoon on the body of his brother, Abdul Ghadir Halum, booth, who had been shot between the eyes. "Our group is divided into two groups on Istanbul Street and fought them." "The firing was very difficult."

During the gun battle was raging, collected the most important rebel group, about 10 km north of Ajdabiya. Evening it started moving past of the city in the northeast of checkpoint, where the fighters parceled and short again a degree of control of the Ajdabiya of Eastern and central areas.

Gunfire was replaced in these areas, but skirmishes on the town of southern and Western sides could be heard. Then restarted the barrages, leads many rebels to flee to the new.

It was confusing, fast-moving and violent on the day, with determination and panic on the display. Brutality showed shortly in the form of mob rule.

In the Midafternoon as the rebels cars on the city of Alsace in checkpoint searches and continued the fighting, she pulled a man from a vehicle, rushed him to the shoulder far from the road and shot him. Capture of the man and his hasty funeral could be seen a hundred metres away, through binoculars from a few, although the execution was not visible, because the amount to the prisoners was too thick.

Journalists trying to interview the executioners were chased away by gunfire, which the checkpoint and the area nearby, seemingly random swept. The gathered crowd distributed the balls.

Later, after the shots slowed down, said several rebels had shot the man, because he was known, that a Loyalist agent. His name could not immediately be determined.

NATO air raids came in the game in the battle: at least one created a cloud over the city Western districts at 1:25 pm as Colonel Qadhafi troops the city were bombed. But the allied air campaign could again hold the military it, press the rebels, as have been that the case fighting during a week that saw the ragged opposition forces losing their footholds along the coastal road, including the city of Brega.

Mr Halum, clutching a battered assault rifle as he moved the morgue while his brother's body wash was, seemed angry and perplexed. Achieving Ajdabiya, Qadhafi loyalists had crossed about 50 miles of open desert.

"Where NATO?", he said. "The military Gaddafi came from Brega Ajdabiya." "Why not they they?"

Although the air strikes have deprived that Pro-Qaddafi forces use many of their armored vehicles were rebels not they reach and the loyalists have enabled deception and infiltration.

Eric Schmitt contributed reporting from Washington and Kareem Fahim Benghazi, Libya.

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Gaddafi forces using civilians as human shields, says France - the guardian

French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe: 'Risk of collateral damage on the civilian population of Misurata obviously hampered operations.' Photo: Ian Langsdon/EPA

Muammar Gaddafi's forces use civilians as human shields, to NATO air attacks slide, said France after rebels the Western-led coalition accused their attacking of Misratah continue to stand by government troops.

The French Foreign Minister, Alain Juppe, conceded, that the position of the rebel held town - under shelling and sniper fire from the army was daily - unbearable but said it was a little more that could be done immediately.

"We have formally requested, there will be no collateral damage for the civilian population," he told Radio France info. "This makes more difficult operations course."

The head of the French armed forces gave a similar response to complaints by rebels, that the pace of air strikes has waned since the NATO for the control of Libyan operations from the United States, France and the United Kingdom on 31 March.

"I would like to purchase from Kagi, things accelerated, but as you know, protection means not somewhere fire from civilians in the vicinity of them," said Admiral Edouard Guillaud radio Europe 1. "This is exactly the problem."

He said, NATO was operations at Misratah, concentration in the rebel of port area, keep and at the same time try to prevent the transit of new weapons on Gaddafi's power base in Tripoli.

The comments followed a scathing rebuke for the Alliance of General Abdel Fatah Younis, leader of the ailing rebel forces. He said: "NATO blesses us every now and then with here and as a bombing, and that's that let people of Misratah die every day." "NATO has disappointed us."

Younis, formerly Gaddafi's Interior Minister, had said a significant slowdown of operations since NATO took over: "The NATO response is very slow." An official gets another and then by the official on the head of NATO and by the head of NATO in the field commander. "It takes eight hours."

He denied the NATO argument to limit the bombing of Misurata: "Nato says Gaddafi's forces are hiding among the civilian population." But we tell them that there are no civilians in the areas where the Gaddafi forces, left positioned. We call on them civil property is to destroy the snipers and armed gangs. "

After a first rapid to and fro that quickly provided for the rebels pushed back further, the battle for control of the country in a near stalemate between Tripoli and the rebels based in the eastern city of Benghazi has stuck werdeneine of NATO a no-fly zone and attacks on Gaddafi's forces managed implementation.

Resupplied Government saw the recent fighting, according to rebels, forces push to the East of the oil port of Brega.

Pick-up trucks loaded with machine guns and rocket launchers while several families fled the fighting in cars loaded with their belongings they passed in the opposite direction West of Ajdabiyah headed.

Hossam Ahmed, a defector from Gaddafi's army, said the front line was 25-37 (40-60 miles) West of Ajdabiyah, say that retreat "was not full withdrawal", it is back and forth.

Ajdabiyah, gateway to Benghazi, is about 80 km east of Brega.

How other rebels at the western gate of Ajdabiyah Ahmed expressed frustration about the lack of NATO actions. "There were no air strikes." "We hear the sound but it not a bomb", he told Reuters.

Another rebel, Khaled al Obeidi said: "what did NATO, which bombed the NATO?"

So far, almost one-third of the Gaddafi's said air strikes military capacity away have, Brigadier General Mark van uhm, senior NATO staff officer, in Brussels. He also said that remaining government troops were often hidden in areas populated: "when the people are used as shields we not to participate."

In the midst of the blockade it has increasing focus on diplomatic efforts, such as for example promoting key Gaddafi loyalists to unsubscribe.

Gaddafi apparently tried to play the same game. Libya's official Jana news agency said that he had sent a message to Obama "colonial after the withdrawal of America of the Crusader Alliance against Libya". The United States played a key role in early air strikes before NATO took over.

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Why overthrow Gaddafi is overrated - time

2011Christopher Morris comes for a television interview in Tripoli, Libyan leader Muammar Al-Qadhafi March 8, / VII time

An article of faith among America's chattering class practical, it becomes that the intervention of the West in Libya do not apply a success when Muammar Gaddafi is removed from power. Responding to President Obama talk about Libya last week, said CNNS Eliot Spitzer: "If... we start, military, withdraw, this is a very risky political proposal for the President to resign until we bekommendie moment of clear success removing the Gaddafi." On PBS NewsHour last Friday liberal columnist of Mark Shields explains, "Each task that ends or are provided the Libya is an error with Gaddafi in effective control." The Republican Senator John McCain of Arizona says the Gaddafi "the longer he remains at the makes, he is more dangerous." An other Republican Senator, Florida's Marco Rubio, wants to secure Senate any resolution set the use of force in Libya, that "Removing Muammar Gaddafi of power is in our national interest and..." "Authorize the President to achieve this goal."

From the outset the Libyan crisis, Obama expressed his preference for Gaddafi, to make power. But he also wants that "expanding our military mission to include regime change would fails." This fodder for critics of the policy of the President, as for example the former Bush administration provided officials John Yoo and Robert Delahunty, you perceived contradiction "erratic, improvisation and amateurish" labeled and Obama of strengthen the "Gaddafi's solve hang" by accused the possibility of an American invasion. (See pictures of the battle for Libya.)

But such arguments are ridiculous. How Obama in his speech stressed, would by the deposition of Gaddafi violently affect a military commitment, the Americans neither want nor can afford. And even if the United States had not already exempt effort composed of two New Zealand wars, a concerted campaign of Gaddafi of the power station would be short-sighted and strategically stupid. Despite the claims of the armchair generals Washington, there is no evidence that the great slaughter of civilians stop - the specified reason for international intervention in Libya - sponsored regime change requires Western. Still, it is obvious that the Libyan people better off would be in the long run. In fact according to history with U.S. military power against Gaddafi Libya would do more harm than good.

The idea of reducing a tyrant terror-sponsoring may be appealing, but the success rate of change of regime imposed on foreign armies is depressing. According to Alexander B. Downes, political scientist at who gave Duke University, it 95 instances of "foreign imposed regime change" (FIRC) around the world for 1816. Downes has stated that in countries where an external force replaced the existing system with a new, the chances for a civil war break out tripled in five years. Ruler, installed by the outsiders seen rebellion and armed uprising to less able, command loyalty and more likely, resistance, are meet. State institutions have a greater tendency to reduce, in particular, if FIRC occurs as a result of the war. (As in Libya were true.) And poor, ethnically heterogeneous Nations - the types of places "where the United States and most other democracies are most likely instruct, such [assistance]"-are most vulnerable to post-regime-change instability. (See speech President Obama Libya.)

The historical data, Downes concludes, suggest that "to overthrow an instrument with limited utility is other Governments because of the potential to ignite civil war." But that doesn't mean the world powerless, is to stop state-sanctioned aggression. In the 1990s used the United States heavy air raids to stop Slobodan Milosevic's campaign of ethnic cleansing in Bosnia and in Kosovo. After the first Gulf war one kept UN sanctioned no-fly zone over northern Iraq Kurdish population of the country safe from Saddam Hussein. In the year 2000, the British Prime Minister Tony Blair sent a force of paratroopers and Royal Marines to Sierra Leone to shore UN peacekeepers and to prevent, that the Government of overrun by militia under the command of Liberian warlord Charles Taylor.

In all three cases, guide for the implementation of stops in the West after the fall of at least as extreme as the atrocities committed by Gaddafi responsible. Hawks complained against was not possible at the time of the true stability, as long as the rogues in power remained. And in all three cases, the humanitarian objectives of the protection to prevent were reached by civilians and mass murder, at a fraction of the human, financial and strategic costs embarking on regime change the hard way by force - as we later in the Iraq learned. (Read "Libya: why Western forces selectively the world police.")

So, Gaddafi should must to remain the power? The Libyan people certainly deserves to be such a threat - and perhaps to his sons. But it is folly for outsiders to determine how and when they go. Those who criticize it to carefully Obama to Libya are right in one respect: the coalition air campaign alone is not enough to distribute to Gaddafi. It is to deliver not justice for its victims. But it has already saved lives, limited the amount of damage can be Gaddafi own people deal and caused to crack his inner circle.

That is, the ragtag anti-Gaddafi are forces to March not to Tripoli. Apart from a palace coup, a prolonged standstill could be Libya's war, the Coalition for weeks or even enforce a no-fly zone, coming months required. Containment can be the most tasty policy option of the West in Libya. (Comment on this story.)

What is to decide which means for the colonels ultimate fate for the Libyans. Forced Gaddafi to remove from power the goal of the rebels, is certainly have taken arms against him. But we have to make it to us.

Ratnesar, is a time contributing editor-at-large, Bernard L. Schwartz fellow of at the new America Foundation and the author of the tear down this wall: a city, a President and the speech that ended the cold war. His column on Global Affairs appears every Monday on time.com.

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Libya 'Needs Gaddafi as a leader' - BBC News

5 April 2011, last updated at 03: 22 GMT Muammar Gaddafi has been in force since 1969, the Libyan Government has said it is for "any" political reform open but Muammar Gaddafi at the power must remain, to avoid a new Iraq or Somalia.

A spokesman of told of Reuters that Colonel Gaddafi was a "unifying figure", and insisted that his troops only armed rebels, civilians not targeted.

The Libyan leader, reportedly has appeared in public in Tripoli.

In the meantime accused forces of atrocities against civilians evacuated from the besieged city of Misurata Pro-Gaddafi.

Fighting has continued in the East of the country, where the rebels have tried, back ground lost attacked military vehicles was aircraft in the last few days, and coalition Col of Gaddafi's forces include.

Vital coastal strip which is oil-rich country effectively divided between rebels in the East and Government loyalists in Tripoli and the West, almost two months after the uprising against the Col Gaddafi's rule.

The son of Colonel Gaddafi has insisted that he and his father by the defection of feel cheated Libyan Foreign Minister Moussa Koussa, who came last week in London.

Saif al-Islam told the BBC that Mr Koussa traveled to England for health reasons was because he was a man old and sick and needed treatment.

' Elections, referenda, something '

A Libyan Government Envoy, Deputy Foreign Minister Abdelati Obeidi, is currently on a tour of European capitals to the solution of the conflict.

Speaking in Tripoli, said Government spokesman Moussa Ibrahim, "was remain Col Gaddafi a safety valve for the country together".

Moussa Ibrahim: "we are so happy to Libya save from destruction... we are listening"

He said "The leader of Libyan tribes and Libyan population a unifying figure, as a unifying figure, offers".

"Many Libyans, to many Libyans take him, the process, forward, because she fear it not for some reason, that we have, what happened in the Iraq we have, what happened in Somalia, we have done in Afghanistan are."

Libya, who said Government spokesman, was open to political Reformen-"elections, referenda, nothing"-but "the leader must forward lead".

Mr Ibrahim said it was not for the West Libya say "You have to lose your guide or your system or your regime".

To deny Government attacks on civilians, he called for the outside world to an alleged crime to investigate.

He said "We fight armed militias,". "You are not a civilian if you to take weapons."

Libyan State TV showed what appears to live recordings supporters of a jeep of Col Gaddafi salute outside his walled compound on the Bab al Aziziya in Tripoli late on Monday.

'Corpses on the road'

On Sunday a Turkish humanitarian ship came down with more than 250 injured people from Misratah, the only major city in western Libya still rebel control, rebel in the capital city of Benghazi.

Speaking of Tunisia, said others evacuated Reuters that it forces Gaddafi "was massacring civilians had".

"You have to visit Misratah to see, the massacre of Gaddafi," said Omar Mongi, the Tunisian port of Sfax by a French aid group brought a 40-year-old engineer with a gunshot wound to leg injuries.

"Bodies are on the road." "Hospitals are overflowing."

In the East again on Monday, in the direction of the city of Brega promote oil attempted rebels.

The BBC's Wyre, said Davies on the road close to Brega, the rebels appeared lively and organized to be recently.

US jets Libyan military vehicles near the cities of Sirte and Brega on Monday attacked, US officials said.

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2 Gaddafi to offer sons plan father out push

The rebels, demanding Colonel Qadhafi, as well as the American and European powers supported so far composed it with air strikes on a more radical break with his 40 years of rule. And it is not clear whether Colonel Qadhafi, 68, has signed supported by his sons, reported proposal Seif and Saadi el-Gaddafi, although close to the sons of the father was ready a person are said make the call.

But the proposal offers a window into the dynamic of the Qadhafi family at a time when the Colonel, who has seven sons, relies heavily on it. He is one of Moussa Koussa from his closest confidants of the resignation of Foreign Minister and isolated by decades attempted coups and internal cleansing, leaning on his sons as trusted advisors and military commanders.

The idea of touch for a long time differences between his sons. While Seif and Saadi turned towards Western-style economic and political openings have, considered to be Colonel Qadhafi sons Khamis and Mutuassim hardliners. Khamis is a fearsome militia concentrated itself on internal unrest suppress.

And Mutuassim, a national security adviser, who was also his own militia, commands as a rival to the Seif in the competition for her father. But Saadi, who has driven by career as a football player, a businessman and an officer, firmly secures the plan, said associate.

The two sons "wants to move to the change for the country" a person close to the camp said without their father, Seif and Saadi Sunday, speaking on condition of anonymity out of fear of retaliation. "they have with so many brick walls of the old guard meet, and if they have a green light, it will bring the country up quickly." A son, this person said, has often said that "were the wishes of the rebellion of his own."

The proposals are the latest twist in a drama between Seif and his father, who has played for years on the stage of Libyan public life as the son has alternately pushed forward with calls for political reforms and then retired. During the recent revolt, he was in step with his father in swear by the rebels March to eradicate. "We come," he said to a crowd of supporters, singing that "Seif al-Islam step on the rats."

The proposals are also the latest sign that the Qadhafi Government Printing two weeks of allied air strikes can be feeling, which greatly reduced the advantage in equipment of the militia of Qadhafi. A senior official of the Libyan arrived in Athens to discuss a possible solution to the conflict, the Reuters news service reported. And Mohamed Ismail, a top adviser of Seif, is from a trip to London, where, a Libyan official said, he's proposal for Seif to take over, return presented by his father.

Mutuassim because of his long-standing rivalry with Seif be particularly resistant.

After Seif a high-profile trip to Washington to meet with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in 2008, a WikiLeaks reported cable, the attention paid "exacerbated tension with his brothers and sisters."

As Mutuassim Washington next year, the US Ambassador to Libya wrote visited, are "Mutuassim the desire, Washington this spring visit and meeting with his seemingly overweening focus U.S. Government top officials and signing a number of agreements at least in part by a strong sense of competition with Saif al-Islam driven."

Recently suggested in an interview with the Pan Arab news channel Al-Arabiya, Saadi, that Seif before the revolt had already been "the person.", every day in Libya the Mr Koussa, the former top adviser to Colonel Qadhafi used to run the show the host, last week removed a character as a leader of the old guard Seif of suspicious and had been against a reform.

A diplomat familiar said discussions in which the proposal however was beginning. Despite the evidence of deep inner dissatisfaction, Colonel Qadhafi seems to think that rebellion against him is a foreign conspiracy by Islamist radical and oil hungry Western powers trying to Libya take, said the diplomat. And the rebels, who have established their own provisional Government, continue to insist on the exit of the power of Colonel Qadhafi and his sons.

C. j. Chivers contributed reporting from Brega, Libya.

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Gaddafi of Envoy meets Greek leader - Washington Post

Libyan leader Muammar Al-Qadhafi launched a diplomatic initiative towards some members of the NATO on Sunday, with the Greek Government say that met a senior official of the Libyan with Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou and, planned to travel on to Turkey.

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Gaddafi regime "Sought a solution,", said Greek Foreign Minister Dimitris Droutsas, but he has to be no information about the meeting with Foreign Minister Libyan Abdulati al Obeidi. Droutsas added that his Government would inform "all our partners and allies" of the Libyan proposals.

Obama administration officials were waiting to be informed, said that they had no comment on the plans. Obeidi, Libyan Prime Minister, emerged in the last few days as Gaddafi's diplomatic point man.

Many of them arrived in Benghazi the de-facto capital of the Libyan opposition, a Turkish ferry with hundreds of people, wounded fighters, from the Western Misurata, where the rebels were under siege by Gaddafi loyalists.

The ship, under the protection of the Turkish military of fighter jets and naval vessels travel in Benghazi more wounded in Turkey get stopped.

Droutsas said that Obeidi planned by Athens in the Turkey for meetings with government officials, and then to Malta travel according to a report by the official news agency of Athens. The meeting with Papandreou, who said Greek officials had a phone call from Tripoli on Friday was ordered.

"On our part," Droutsas said in a statement, "we stressed that we confirmed the clear message of the international community: full compliance with and implementation of UN resolutions, immediate ceasefire, end violence and hostilities, particularly against civilians in Libya." "Emissary words, it seems based on the that the regime also [] is looking for a solution."

Obeidi told reporters in Tripoli on Friday, "We seek British, the French and the Americans with the, the killing of people to stop talking." "We try to find a mutual solution."

Many Libyan officials are allegedly in contact with Western officials, although it remains unclear which seek to leave the Government among them and, represent you. Libyan Foreign Minister Musa KUSA übergelaufen last week after United Kingdom and a close advisor of Gaddafi's son Saif al-Islam, met with British officials reported proposal of the Libyan leader makes his sons step down.

The Obama showed little interest in such offered administration and its allies and partners in the Libya operation. President Obama described his demand of the international military coalition, under the authorization of the United Nations after Gaddafi's departure as a political goal, during goal, is to stop the violence and to protect Libyan civilians.

Although NATO command of which last week took over operation Libya, some members have said that they would participate only in the noncombat aspects of the intervention.

US officials will remain with opposition groups, who hold the eastern part of the country, air strikes and a no-fly zone under the protection of the Coalition the possibility of a military confrontation on the ground, increasingly resigned during Gaddafi's forces in the control of the West.

The United States and its partners in the operations remain nervous about armament of the disorganized rebel fighters. Although officials expressed confidence in the collection of lawyers and intellectuals, who have formed an interim Government in Benghazi, they are concerned about the identity and objectives of other participants in the fight.

Gaddafi's far bigger and better thwarts last week Western move forces rebel attempts and suppressed by cities, which had taken on the Central Mediterranean Sea.

In Misurata, the only major city in western Libya in rebel hands, still weeks of urban warfare have taken a toll for clearly. Passengers on board the Ankara, which saw the arrival in Benghazi from Misurata, ferry subscribed and exhausted.

The passengers, protected by heavily armed Turkish police offered a window into a city, which cut off from the outside world for weeks.

"There is no safe place in Misurata," said Faraj Ahmed, 31, a doctor, the wounded on their trip to Turkey was accompanied. About 70 more wounded people were to be picked up by Benghazi.

The ship came in Misurata of under guise of 10 Turkish air force F-16 fighter aircraft and two navy frigates, Reuters said, adding that thousands of desperate people, including several thousand Egyptians, tried it on board.

"There are bombs everywhere, in homes, in cars," said Ahmed. "The situation is really bad." "There is nothing to eat, no formula for the baby." Electricity was been interrupted, he said. "Even with the air strikes" coalition forces, he said "Gaddafi's people killed people every day are."

Inside the ship was sprinkled every cabin and lounge with injured people. The smell of diesel fuel mixed with the stench of sweat as harried medical personnel crashed through rows of the wounded.

Some of the violations were cruel. A young man sat on a mattress on the floor, a gaping hole where his nose had been. On a different mattress set a man, whose Beine was been amputated. Many said they were civilians and had been sitting in their cars or foot on the road when they were attacked.

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Bahrampour reports of Benghazi.

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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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