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Gaddafi vs. Libya
Chronicle of the confrontation
March 16
The son of the Libyan leader Saif al-Islam said in an interview with Euronews that supporters of the Gaddafi regime "approach the rebels Bengham" and that "it will end after 48 hours."
"The military operation is already ready. It will end in 48 hours. Our troops have already approached Benghazi. Whatever the decision would be made relative to our airspace, it no longer wakes up.
It will be too late, ”he said. Gaddafi’s troops repel the city outside the city. Earlier, they took the cities of Adjacia, Ras -Lanuf and Brega.
March 10
France recognized the legitimacy of the Provisional Government of the Libyan opposition, reports Reuters. This decision was announced after the meeting of President Sarkozy with representatives of the Libyan National Council and, on the eve of the meeting of the heads of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the EU member states.
In the near future, additional negotiations are outlined between the French state -owned persons and the rafting of the Libyan opposition, which is headed by the former Minister of Justice. The European Union plans to introduce additional financial sanctions against the Government of Gaddafi, the Air Force reports. 
Meanwhile, the military faithful to the Libyan leader fights with the rebels, Interfax reports. According to the latest data, they repelled from supporters of the opposition the city of EZ-Zavia. Libyan state television shows the military, patrolling the streets of this settlement. The operation to capture the city began five days ago. At the same time, the son of Muammar Gaddafi in an interview with Paris-Match said that the world "absolutely does not understand what is happening in Libya." 
March 9
The plane, on board which was the Messor of Muamara Gaddafi, landed in Cairo, reports Interfas. According to the Italian newspaper La Repubblica, the purpose of the arrival of this person, who is a representative of the Libyan military command, is to transfer the important message to the head of the Higher Military Council of Egypt Muhammed Hussein Tantaui. 
After the revolution in Egypt, it is the Higher Military Council that performs the functions of the Provisional Government, performing the functions of managing the state instead of the overthrown Hosnie Mubarak. What exactly is contained in the Haddafi message is not reported. In addition to the aircraft delivering from the representative of the military council, other two aircraft belonging to the leader of Libya flew out of Tripoli. At first, according to BBC reports, they were heading to Vienna and Athens. However, later, as the Mezharab television channel Al Jazeera transmitted, the planes changed the course and headed for Egypt. However, Egypt authorities have not yet confirmed these messages. Earlier, according to the Al Arabia television channel, the first aircraft was also seen in the Greek airspace, that is, the team to change the course was given later. 
Meanwhile, to the central square of the city of EZ-Zavia, which is still under the control of the opposition, according to BBC television and radio corporation, citing eyewitnesses, tanks from the faithful Gaddafi are advanced. The report notes that the EZ-tide was badly damaged during the fighting. BBC notes that Gaddafi is ready to use significant military forces from his reserves in order to take control of the EZ tague 60 km from Tripoli.
March 2-4 
The head of the Libyan opposition urged Muammar Gaddafi on Friday to fight to the victorious end, Reuters reports. “We are those people who fight, we do not give up. Victory or death. We will not stop until we free the country,” said the ex -minister of justice and the head of the National Council of Libya Mustafa Abdel Jalil. 
Now the Libyan rebels who seek the departure of Gaddafi are moving in the direction of the city of Ras-Lanuf, in which one of the largest oil ports in the country is located. Fights also go near the capital of Tripoli.
February 28 - March 2 
The Air Force devoted by Gaddafi struck bombing at the positions of the rebels in the city of El Boreka, the Al-Armiya TV channel reports. The airport and oil facilities were subjected to shelling from the air. Unique video cameras appeared on the network - amateur shooting of one of the eyewitnesses of battles in the eastern part of Libya.
Air strikes were also applied to strategic facilities in Addabia 160 km from a large city of Benghazi, ITAR-TASS reports. And one of the employees of the Al Jazeera television channel managed to shoot the video at the moment when he ended up on the road that underwent a missile shelling.
Muamaru Gaddafi can face the Hague Tribunal, reports Echo of Moscow. The prosecutor's office of the International Criminal Court has already made an unprecedentedly operational decision - to begin an investigation of possible facts of crimes against humanity in Libya. Typically, the solution of such issues requires months, and sometimes years. However, this time, a few days after the emergence of the Security Council resolution, the Prosecutor General of the International Court Luis Morino-Okampo announced the beginning of the investigation of the circumstances of the death of civilians.
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In the east of Libya, fierce battles began for the cities of El-Bureka and Adjabia, which pass into the hands of government troops, then protesters. Supporters of the Gaddafi regime decided to return to the control of the city, which have been in the power of opposition forces for the last two weeks. On Thursday morning, the military loyal to the regime retreated, one of the oil points in the country is in the hands of demonstrators.
Gaddafi himself celebrates the 34th anniversary of the establishment of "direct democracy" - Jamahiria. At the event on the occasion of the anniversary, the leader of the country again accused of all the troubles of the Al-Qaidu terrorist organization and its leader, Usam Ben Laden, saying that the main goal of the terrorists is to seize the oil wealth of Libya. As he put it, the criminals were repulsed, and other countries regarded everything that happened as a reprisal against civilians.
Gaddafi also said that he was ready to cooperate with the UN and NATO in the investigation of the facts of what is happening in the country. Meanwhile, US military forces are directed to the shores of Libya.
Two American warships entered the Suez Canal on March 2, Radio Liberty reports. They are sent to the Mediterranean Sea, to the shores of Libya, where the confrontation between Muamar Gaddafi and rebels continues. Western countries declare that they will increase military -political pressure on the Gaddafi regime - in order to force the Libyan leader to abandon the authorities.
February 25-28 
Near the capital of Libya - Tripoli - the on the eve of the resistance between opponents of the Gaddafi regime and the faithful leader of the country by the Armed Forces, the AP agency reports. The opposition managed to repel an attack that proceeded from the eastern and western sides of the city. Military loyal tanks to Gaddafi were fired from grenade launchers. The leader of the people's Jamahiria promises to apply air strikes on demonstrators on Tuesday if they do not disperse. 
Meanwhile, on Monday, two Libyan Air Force fighters bombed a warehouse of weapons and ammunition in Ajabia south of the eastern city of Benghazi, who had also previously been controlled by the rebels, Al-Jazeera reports. 
Meanwhile, the United States tighten warships and planes to the boundaries of Libya, where performances against Muammar Gaddafi continue. This was announced on Monday by the Pentagon representative, Colonel David Lapan, reports Reuters. According to US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, they can be used for humanitarian purposes and rescue operations. The British government decided to transfer the Typhoon aircraft to the Royal Air Force to its military base in Cyprus in order to block the airspace over Libya, reports Sky News. 
© Reuters Каддафи в интервью британской телерадиокорпорации BBC и американскому телеканалу ABC заявил, что Запад предал его, требуя отказаться от власти. “Of course, this is a betrayal. They do not have moral right to this. In addition, if they want me to leave, where I have to go from? I am not a monarch and not a king,” his words “Interfax” quotes.
Saif al -Islam - the son of the Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi - said on Saturday that an agreement between the authorities and the opposition was not reached and did not exclude the version of the civil war, the Reuters agency reports. The mercenaries loyal to the Libyan leader load the bodies of those killed on airplanes, then they cross the vicinity of the city of Sirts, where the corpses are dumped in the desert, the Echo of Moscow reports with reference to the interview of the Libyan, Ibrahim Dabbaschi, the BBC television channel.
February 24-25 
Libyan state television showed the address of the leader of Muammar Gaddafi on the air to his supporters. As Reuters reports, Gaddafi calls for his supporters to victory over enemies in Green Square in the capital of Tripoli.
“We will fight if they want it,” said Gaddafi. - Go out and protect Libya. "" If necessary, all warehouses with weapons will be open to defenders of the country. We will fight and we will win, ”he shouted. - Libya will become a red fire. "Meanwhile, journalists from Libyan independent publications refute information about mass killings in Tripoli and a airstrike in the city.
The anti -government protests in Tripoli, resumed after Friday prayer, were harshly suppressed by the military, BBC reports.
The Loyal Muammara Gaddafi forces opened fire after hundreds of opponents of the current regime began a protest march in the Dzhanzur region in the west of Tripoli, a local resident who asked not to indicate his name told Reuters by e -mail.
Government troops killed at least two demonstrators in the Libyan capital, reports Al Jazeera. The medical institutions of Tripoli deny this information. Representatives of the UN said that several thousand people died over all the days of the riots.
And the leader of the opposition “Party of Justice and Democracy” Hadi Shaluf said on the TV channel Al-Arabia that the number of those who died during clashes between government forces and demonstrators was already 10 thousand people, and the number of wounded reaches 50 thousand.
In the city of Benghandi in the eastern part of Libya, which has passed under the control of the anti -government forces, the family palace of Muammar Gaddafi has been plundered and burned, CNN reports.
The Prosecutor General of Libya, the soldiers and police cities of Addabia crossed on Friday to the side of the demonstrators who are sought by Muammar Gaddafi, Reuters reports. Prosecutor General Abdul-Ramman al-Abbar said that he resigned and replenished the ranks of the opposition.
“I confidently announce that I resigned from the post of General Prosecutor Libya, and I report that I join the requirements of the Libyan people set out during the Revolution on February 17 ...”, he told Al Arabiya.
Gaddafi abandoned the last forces to protect Tripoli: tanks were set around the entire perimeter of the capital. The city is constantly patrolled by mercenaries and kill everyone who seemed suspicious.
The army and police officers of Addabia, located in the east of the North African country, left the barracks on Friday and joined the protesters. “We, endowed with police powers, announce that we joined the people and the peaceful revolution on February 17,” the words of captain Hafiz Abdul -Rahim TV channel Al Jazeera. A similar statement was made by the Colonel of the Libyan Army Shuib Ibrahim al-Akuki.
Protesters took control of another city in Libya - Mashat
Earlier, according to Reuters, the troops loyal to the leader of Libya Muammar Gaddafi attacked the troops under the control of the protesters of the city near the capital of the country of Tripoli, but they could not knock out the opposition from there. According to France Press, to date, the number of riots in Libya has increased to several thousand people.
The Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi told state television that Osama Ben Laden and his supporters are to blame for the riots that covered the country, BBC reports.
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On a telephone bell from the city of Al-Zavia, Gaddafi said on the air that the protesters under the drug and alcohol abyss were taking part in sabotage. The head of state believes that the demonstrators did not have requirements, and the protest shares were initiated by the leader of Al-Qaeda. "Ben Laden is an enemy who manipulates people," he said.
Street battles in the city of Ez-Zavia
Muammar Gaddafi fights to strengthen control of Tripoli and in the western regions of the country. The city of EZ -Zavia is already in the power of opponents of the Gaddafi regime, BBC reports. Also in the ODD of the Western City - Misurat - a similar situation has developed, AL -JAZeera reports.
February 23
Libyan authorities gather several thousand mercenaries to protect the capital of the country from protesters, reports The New York Times . Some eyewitnesses claim that foreign mercenaries are standing at the approaches to Tripoli. Mercenaries also patrol the streets of the capital. The eastern parts of Tripoli are under the control of the opposition. The country's authorities demand to lay down weapons and offer a reward to those who surrender the rebels.
Colonel Muammar Gaddafi in 1988 personally ordered the terrorist attack, the former Minister of Justice of Libya Mustafa Abdel-Jalil said on Wednesday by the Swedish newspaper The Local . He ordered the airliner of the company "Pan Am" over Lokerbi in Scotland, then 270 people died.
“I have evidence that Gaddafi gave this order,” added Abdel -Jalil, who resigned on February 21 in protest “for excessive use by the government for protesters”.
A group of Russian citizens is surrounded by militants in the Libyan city of Ras-Lanuf. This was announced on the air of the Echo Moskvy radio station by an employee of the Kalugachmash plant in Libya Alexander Verkachev. “The camp with Russian citizens is surrounded by Arab military extremists, an uncontrollable crowd of Arabs,” he said, noting that the situation is heated to the limit.
According to him, about a thousand people are on the basis, including Russians, Turks and Serbs. The Russian Emergencies Ministry, having learned from the Echo of Moscow about the situation in Ras-Lanuf, promised in the near future to verify this information.
Earlier on Wednesday, the aircraft of the Air Force of Libya crashed near the city of Benghazi, reports Reuters with reference to the Quryna Libyan newspaper. The plane collapsed due to the fact that the two pilots were ejected, refusing to bomb Benghazi. 
The Minister of Internal Affairs Libya resigned, announcing "about the transition to the side of the revolution" and urging the military to follow his example. All new army units declare their supporting protesters, ITAR-TASS reports. Libyan diplomats around the world abandon Gaddafi. Shots are still heard on the streets of Libyan cities, the exact number of victims is not known, but the score is hundreds.
Urgent evacuation of foreign citizens is carried out, Interfax reports. The Ministry of Emergencies have already delivered 118 Russians to Moscow, it is planned to withdraw about one and a half thousand people.
February 22 
The Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi said in his television show that he would not leave the post of head of state. “I'm not going to leave this land, I will die here as a martyr,” Gaddafi said. The leader of the country called those who want to make the Islamic state “rats and mercenaries” from Libya and called on the population on Wednesday to take the streets to support him, reports Reuters.
"There are millions of me. We will clean the house for the house all Libya if they do not give up," Gaddafi said. At the same time, he promised to give a chance to participants in the riots if they surrender their weapons and return to a normal life. Gaddafi also stated that the authorities of Libya have not yet used force during the latest events in the country, but can be applied.
Messages from Twitter : Mona Eltahawy @Monaeltahawy*
The "leader of the people's revolution" is overthrown by the real folk revolution in #libya. I like it. Excellent watch #gaddafi *"
Jeel Ghathub @ Libyan4life "#Gaddafi has no dignity" Sunnkaa @ sunkaa *"#gaddafi wants a civil war. He wants the Libyans to kill the Libyans *"
Shadi Hamid @shadihamid *" Gaddafi unequivocally announced his intention to cut his people in #libya *"
Libyan Dude @Changeinlibya * "Guys, you do not feel the irony? What he says to do to his people will act against him. What kind of crazy #libya * #feb17"
Ali Abunimah @avinunu *" We can laugh at him, but never forget that this is an ominous person who threatens the Libyans with mass murders if he does not fulfill his orders." 
A group of Russian photorepectors disappeared in Libya. “They have not been in touch for more than two days,” their colleague, photographer Dmitry Arkhipov told Interfax to Interfax. According to him, photorepectors traveled to the south of Libya, not far from the borders with Algeria and the child, after which it was planned that they would arrive in Tripoli.
Natalia, who constantly lives in Tripoli, writes on her blog:
I'm sitting, shaking with fear. In Libya, a civil war began. Starting on February 15, protests and battles in the Libyan city of Benghazi began. Now in the capital of Libya Tripoli, mass riots have begun. All yesterday night explosions and shots rattled, people screamed, cars and buildings burned. Hundreds of people are spilled during the night. It was quiet in the afternoon. Now the fights have begun again. We (I, husband and son) are sitting at home, in Tripoli. On the hands of the tickets for the plane for tomorrow's lunch to Istanbul. But if we can get to the airport - a big question. The Internet and the phone work very poorly, periodically completely turn off, so that information from the country does not leak out about the bad thing.
From the blog of Natalia:
We have rain, a little drunk, but they still shoot. At night they bombed even from airplanes. Now, they say, hired African military collects and burn corpses, so that there are fewer dead. Before the midnight, the airspace over Tripoli was closed. Now I don't know what will happen. All hope was on a regular flight to Istanbul. Having tickets, we would definitely fly away. And now ... footage from the local airport is shown on television. People lie right on the floor, could not fly away in the evening. Phones do not work for us, you can’t call anyone. We will sit at home and do not know anything. We learn only from the news about what is happening. And little is said in the news, because there are no journalists in the country, there is no connection, no one can convey anything ...
February 21
Russian Tatyana, living in the capital of Libya, writes on her blog:
In the afternoon, Tripoli turned into an ordinary city, except that in some places garbage was lying near the charred garbage urns, and there were much fewer people on the street. Well, the huge portrait of Gaddafi on the wall of the house was torn ... Almost all stores were closed, but this did not cause any frightening sensations, here on Friday everything is also closed. It even seemed to seem that everything would be the same in the evening. But with the onset of darkness, shooting began from different sides. Doctors from hospitals were told about the dead and the wounded who are delivered to them, mostly young people and even teenagers. Rumors go not only in the media about numbers, but also here, no one knows exactly anything. Who will go to look at it or shoot in the thick of events? So far there were no people.
"All the eastern areas got out of the control of Gaddafi ... The people and the army are acting here hand in hand," said the former Major of the Libyan army, Hani Saad Marjaa. 
During a short television, the first from the moment the unrest began last week, Gaddafi denied rumors that he allegedly fled from the country. “I want to show that I am in Tripoli, not Venezuela. Do not believe the channels belonging to the stray dogs. I want to say something to young people in Green Square (in Tripoli) ... But rain begins,” said Gaddafi, who has been the post of head of state since 1969.
With the increase in the pressure on the Gaddafi regime, the camp of his supporters begins to gradually empty: a number of diplomats were resigned, and a group of officers called on the soldiers to "join the people," Reuters reported.
Oil prices react to the restless atmosphere in Libya, which is part of the organization of oil exporting countries. About 90 percent of the Libyan oil exports come from Kirenaica, where the epicenter of unrest is located. Oil for a day went up by almost 10%, silver as well ascended to $ 34.3 per ounce. ** ---
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