银魂白夜叉到底多强:Libya seeks talks as NATO strikes hit capital

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Libya seeks talks as NATO strikes hit capital



NATO said it had hit a "command and control node."




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At least seven powerful explosions were heard around 2:20 am (0020 GMT), as state television quoted a military official as saying Nato warplanes “are currently bombing civilian sites in the capital Tripoli.”



Nato-led war planes struck the Libyan capital early Saturday; with the alliance saying they hit a military command centre and the regime of Moamer Qadhafi saying civilians were targetted.

At least seven powerful explosions were heard around 2:20 am (0020 GMT), as state television quoted a military official as saying Nato warplanes “are currently bombing civilian sites in the capital Tripoli.”

In Brussels, an Atlantic alliance official said “Nato can confirm that we targetted military objectives in Tripoli this morning,” and that the seven strikes were on a command and control node.

Two more explosions were heard in the same area at about midday.

The attack came after rebel forces said they lost 16 fighters east of Tripoli and that they infiltrated the capital and attacked a regime command post where a son of the strongman was among officials targetted.

The rebel forces, who have been fighting to oust Qadhafi for more than five months, said the assault “seriously injured” a high-ranking member of Qadhafi’s security forces.

“Yesterday (Thursday) in Tripoli, there was an attack on an operations centre of top regime officials, including Seif al-Islam Qadhafi,” National Transitional Council vice president Ali Essawy said after a meeting in Rome with Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini.

“One person was left seriously injured,” he said, identifying the person as a high-ranking security official.

Frattini said the “rocket attack against an operations centre” probably in a Tripoli hotel was aimed at “top officials… include Qadhafi’s son Seif, and the head of the secret service, Abdullah al-Senussi.” On Thursday, unconfirmed rumours swirled that rebels in Tripoli had tried to assassinate senior regime members that day.

Since the revolution began in mid-February, a number of Tripoli-based groups have broadcast videos purporting to show acts of civil disobedience in the heavily controlled capital.

Libyan officials denied the attack occurred and denounced as “criminal and unjustified” what they said were Nato raids that killed six guards at a pipeline factory south of an oil plant in the eastern town of Brega.

“There was no attack,” government spokesman Mussa Ibrahim told reporters in reference to the rebels’ claims they had launched a raid on a Tripoli command post.

Rebel forces, he said, were losing their battles in the east of the country and to the southwest and trying “to boost their morale with lies and small victories”.

Elsewhere, the rebels said 16 of their men were killed in two days of fighting for Zliten, the last coastal city between insurgent-held Misrata and the capital.

“Sixteen of our fighters have fallen as martyrs and 126 more have been wounded in fighting with loyalist troops in Zliten,” said a rebel statement, with clashes said to be particularly heavy in the suburb of Souk al-Thulatha.

The insurgents have been trying for weeks to take Zliten, 200 kilometres (120 miles) from Tripoli and 40 kilometres west of Misrata.

The rebels say they have chased the bulk of Qadhafi’s forces from Brega in the east and are poised to advance towards the capital from Misrata and their other western enclave in the Nafusa Mountains, southwest of Tripoli.

The Nafusa campaign is focused on taking Asabah, gateway to the garrison town of Gharyan on the highway into Tripoli.

A rebel commander, Nasser al-Aaib, said Qadhafi troops “are not moving because they don’t know the terrain; they are afraid of being ambushed by the rebels, who know every inch of it.”

In speeches aired by state television this week, Qadhafi urged tribal leaders to march on Misrata while calling the uprising a “lost cause” and ruling out any talks with the rebels.

“They cannot defeat us. They will be defeated and they will go home empty-handed.

“I will not talk to them. There will be no negotiations between me and them.”

Meanwhile, Nato has authorised a civilian air corridor between the rebel headquarters of Benghazi in the east and the Nafusa Mountains, an official in the rebel-held southwest said.
A road that cuts through fields is used as a runway, according to an AFP correspondent who toured the area but cannot identify the location for security reasons.




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Libya wants more talks as NATO strikes hit capital

Libya is ready to hold more talks with the United States and with rebels trying to overthrow Muammar Gaddafi, but the Libyan leader will not bow to demands he quit, a government spokesman said.

Moussa Ibrahim said Libyan officials had a "productive dialogue" with U.S. counterparts last week in a rare meeting that followed American recognition of the rebel government that hopes to end Gaddafi's 41-year rule.

"Other meetings in the future ... will help solve Libyan problems," the spokesman told reporters in Tripoli late on Friday. "We are willing to talk to the Americans more."
He said Gaddafi would not leave his position nor Libya.

Hours later NATO planes bombed targets in the capital, causing damage and casualties, Libyan state television said, without giving details.


A Reuters witness heard at least six blasts early on Saturday, the largest to hit the capital in several weeks, four of them shaking the hotel hosting international media.

Rebel leader Mustafa Abdel Jalil said Gaddafi must agree publicly to stand down before any talks could begin.

"There are no negotiations with this regime unless he declares his departure and that he is stepping down, he and his sons, from power," he said in a weekly statement to Libyans broadcast on rebel-run television.

As Gaddafi clings to power despite five months of civil war and a NATO bombing campaign authorized by a U.N. resolution, the West is increasingly hoping for a negotiated settlement.

But the United States also says Gaddafi must go.

Ibrahim said Libyan officials - but not Gaddafi himself - would be willing to hold further meetings with rebels, who now control roughly half of Libya, only on the government's terms.

"Nations do not negotiate with armed gangs," he said. Gaddafi is urging Libyans to persuade rebels to disarm and rejoin the loyal fold -- and to fight them if they don't.

His comments came as Libya reported a NATO airstrike near the eastern oil hub of Brega, the scene of recent fighting, which the government said killed six guards at a water plant.
NATO said the strike targeted a "military storage facility" rather than the water pipeline plant.



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UN PLAN

As Western nations intensify diplomatic efforts, a European diplomat said a U.N. envoy would seek to persuade the warring parties to accept a plan that envisages a ceasefire and a power-sharing government, but with no role for Gaddafi.

The diplomat said the informal proposals would be canvassed by the special U.N. envoy to Libya, Abdul Elah al-Khatib, who has met both government and rebels several times.

Jalil, who heads the rebels' Transitional National Council that many Western nations now recognize as the Libyan authority, told Reuters on Saturday that Khatib's plan for power-sharing could be discussed as long as Gaddafi himself was out.

"Any diplomatic solutions are acceptable if they include this main condition," he said.

A rebel spokesman told Reuters that Khatib would come to their eastern stronghold of Benghazi early next week.

Poorly armed rebels seem unlikely to quickly unseat Gaddafi. They declared advances this week but they also suffered losses near their enclave of Misrata and in fighting for Brega.

Gaddafi has stepped up his defiant rhetoric amid persistent reports of talks. Pro-government rallies are being shown almost daily on state television, perhaps a reminder to outsiders that he can still command considerable support.


EGYPT


On Friday, thousands gathered near Tripoli's historic center for the unveiling of a massive likeness of the longtime leader.

State television said Gaddafi would make another speech on Saturday, this time addressed to Egyptians on the anniversary of their revolution -- not this year's, which toppled President Hosni Mubarak, but pan-Arabist Gamal Abdel-Nasser's in 1959.

Nasser was a role model for Gaddafi who seized power in a coup as a young revolutionary.

Spokesman Ibrahim denied a rebel report that Mansour Daw, a key aide to Gaddafi, had been wounded in a rebel rocket attack in Tripoli on Thursday. He said there had been an explosion but it was caused by a kitchen gas cylinder.

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