2:59pm: Salah Elwafi is a Libyan in Tripoli who says he supports Colonel Gaddafi. He has told the BBC that people are starting to feel more secure in the city: It feels secure and safe here. Roads are being patrolled by the government army officers and their volunteers. There are check points on the streets, as normal. This city is definitely under the control of the regime but its difficult to gage whats happening in other cities.
2:49pm: More now from the doctor in Misrata who spoke to the BBC World Service. He said the fighting on Sunday was very serious, and that he had never seen anything like it. We had 22 dead and more than 90 severely injured. Weve had kids as young as two and a half years die, people over 70 years old die, he added. Yesterday, they were shooting everything homes, mosques, drugs stores They even used their ambulance to shoot people.
2:45pm: He adds: The current UN Security Council resolution does not authorise the use of force. However, I cannot imagine the international community would stand idly by if Col Gaddafi continues to attack his own people.
2:44pm: Asked about the debate between the alliances member states on whether to impose a no-fly zone, Mr Rasmussen says: Nato stands united. We have asked our militaries to conduct prudent planning for all eventualities. However, Nato has no intention to intervene. I would assume that any operational role would in accordance with, and pursuant to a UN mandate.
2:42: Nato Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen tells BBC World News: It is absolutely outrageous what we are witnessing in Libya. These systematic attacks against the civilian population may, as stated by the UN Security Council, amount to crimes against humanity. The government of Libya has a responsibility to protect its own population.
2:33pm: Former Czech President Vaclav Havel, who helped bring about the end of communist rule in his country, has said foreign military action should be used to oust Col Gaddafi if his forces continue to attack civilians. He told the Hospodarske Noviny newspaper that the world might have to stop the Libyan leader from committing more and more crimes. The entire world was wrong, he said, when it considered Col Gaddafi an eccentric weirdo, because it turned out that he was a mad criminal. Mr Havel said one option was a targeted attack aimed at the places where Gaddafi is hiding
.2:24pm: BBC correspondent says, there is still a sense of fear that the wounded have not stopped coming in. There are people lying in hospital beds with severe injuries. One man I spoke to had a bullet through his heart and lung, but he said he would do it all again, she adds.
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