落秋三国之召唤猛将:Will Gaddafi take the bait to exile?

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Will Gaddafi take the bait to exile?

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-------“If I were president, I would have resigned, but I have no position to resign from,” Gaddafi said.--------

Prospect of Libyan leader being allowed to go into exile remains open despite UN resolution imposing travel ban

The United States suggests exile remains an option for Muammar Gaddafi, despite a new UN resolution imposing a travel ban on the Libyan leader and threatening him with a war crimes prosecution.

The possibility of exile was left open by the White House on a day of continuing clashes between government and rebel forces in Libya and a vow from Gaddafi himself to fight on despite mass defections from his regime.

But the White House comments appeared to contradict remarks made in Geneva by the US secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, who was insistent on bringing Gaddafi to justice.

The EU agreed a raft of sanctions against the Gaddafi regime, echoing the measures passed unanimously over the weekend by the UN Security Council. Germany suggested a further two-month suspension of oil payments to cut off funds the regime was using to hire mercenaries to crush the popular revolt.

The package of punitive UN measures includes an arms embargo, a travel ban, an asset freeze and a referral of Gaddafi to the International Criminal Court in the Hague for prosecution for crimes against humanity.

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The ICC prosecutor said he would complete a preliminary examination of the case against the Gaddafi regime within days, after which he could open a full inquiry, as mandated by the Security Council.

A European official admitted there was "a tension" between the offer of exile and the requirement for the Libyan leader to face trial for the brutal suppression of protests. But there is at present a western consensus that the priority is to minimize further bloodshed, and worry about international justice later.

Jay Carney, the White House spokesman, said on Monday that "exile is certainly one option" for Gaddafi, but he did not say whether the US was prepared to facilitate his departure.

Many western officials concede, however, that the exile option is based more on hope than reasonable expectation. Gaddafi has repeatedly vowed to live and die on Libyan soil, and few observers of his regime have reason to doubt him.

Western and other international pressure is consequently focused on attempting to peel off senior members of the regime using the threat of war crimes prosecutions and financial pressure.

Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi’s forces struck back at his opponents on three fronts on Monday, with special forces, regular army troops and, rebels said, fighter jets, in an escalation of hostilities that brought Libya a step closer to civil war.

But the rebels dismissed the attacks as ineffectual, and Colonel Qaddafi faced a growing international campaign to force him from power, as the Obama administration announced it had seized $30 billion in Libyan assets and the European Union adopted an arms embargo and other sanctions.

As the Pentagon began repositioning Navy warships to support a possible humanitarian or military intervention, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton bluntly told the Libyan leader to surrender power “now, without further violence or delay.”

The attacks by the colonel’s troops on an oil refinery in central Libya and on cities on either side of the country unsettled rebel leaders — who have maintained that they are close to liberating the country — and showed that despite defections by the military, the government may still possess powerful assets, including fighter pilots willing to bomb Libyan cities.

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In an interview with ABC News, Colonel Qaddafi said he was fighting against “terrorists,” and he accused the West of seeking to “occupy Libya.” He gave no hint of surrender. “My people love me,” he said. “They would die for me.”

Those unyielding words, and the colonel’s attacks on Monday were met with both nerves and defiance by rebel military leaders as the two sides seemed to steel themselves for a long battle along shifting and ever more violent front lines.

The country they left behind faced similar uncertainty, as warplanes took to the sky for the first time in 10 days, according to military officials allied with the rebels. In a direct challenge to claims by those officials, who have asserted that Libyan Air Force pilots were no longer taking orders from Colonel Qaddafi, two Libyan Air Force jets conducted bombing raids on Monday, according to witnesses and two military officers in Benghazi allied with the antigovernment protesters.

Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi has said that he is not a president and so cannot resign his position, and that power is in the hands of the people, during a televised public rally in the capital, Tripoli.

"Muammar Gaddafi is not a president to resign, he does not even have a parliament to dissolve," Gaddafi said on Wednesday, surrounded by dozens of supporters in a large ballroom for a ceremony to mark 34 years of "people power."

"Attacks on me are seen by Libyan people as attacks on their symbol and dignity.

"The foreigners want Gaddafi to step down, to step down from what? Gaddafi is just a symbol for the Libyan people... This is how the Libyan people understood it."

He said that the world did not understand the Libyan system that puts power in the hands of the people.

"The people are free to chose the authority they see fit," he said.

"We put our fingers in the eyes of those who doubt that Libya is ruled by anyone other than its people," he said, referring to his system of "direct democracy" which he outlined in his Green Book political manifesto, launched in 1977.

"I have always said that the Libyan people are free in managing their own business."

Gaddafi said there were no protests in the second largest city, Benghazi, Derna, or the eastern town of al-Baida ... that it all started with sleeper cells taking over weapons and security stations.

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He said that terrorists released prisioners from jails and included them in their forces.

"These are criminals not political prisioners ... there are no political prisioners in Libya ... We had to destroy the weapons storages to prevent them from falling into the hands of the terrorists.

He repeated his claim that al-Qaeda was behind the popular uprising against his 41-year rule and promised to fight to the last man and woman.

"Sleeper cells from al-Qaeda, its elements, infiltrated gradually ... Suddenly it started in al-Baida... The sleeping cell was told to attack the battalion ... and it took arms from police stations.

"The soldiers went home and left their battalion" while the al-Qaeda cells "took the weapons and control of the town. It was the same situation in Benghazi," which is under the control of the rebel forces.

But he said "we will fight to the end, to the last man, the last woman ... with God's help."

Gaddafi also called for the United Nations and NATO to investigate what had happened in Libya, saying that he saw a conspiracy to colonise Libya and seize its oil.

"I dare you to find that peaceful protesters were killed. In America, France, and everywhere, if people attacked military stores and tried to steal weapons, they will shoot them," he said.

He urged the United Nations and NATO to "set up fact-finding committees" to find out how people were killed.

Guardian/New York Times/Agencies

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