Revolutie in Libië #51 : Hoe het verder gaat

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Big, black plumes of smoke rose above the terminal. It was not immediately possible to independently confirm the report that the storage tanks were hit or to ascertain if the cause was the bombardment by Gaddafi's forces or a stray rebel rocket. "We were standing over there in the direction of Es Sider. It was a fierce, random bombardment on us and then it hit the storage tanks," rebel fighter Abdel Salam Mohamed told Reuters.

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Op woensdag 9 maart 2011 16:22 schreef MangoTree het volgende:
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15.57 uur: Huis van Saïf Kadhafi gekraakt
Het huis van Kadhafi's zoon Saïf in Londen is gekraakt. Dat melden verschillende media. De villa van tien miljoen pond in het Noord-Londense Hampstead Garden is vanmorgen bezet door activisten in solidariteit met de opstandelingen die vechten tegen Kadhafi. Een woordvoerder van de activisten zegt dat ze er geen vertrouwen in hebben dat de Britse regering het huis zal teruggeven aan het Libische volk "omdat ze een lange geschiedenis heeft van het ondersteunen van het regime van Kadhafi".

16.12 uur: Partijen geven elkaar de schuld voor brand
De Libische autoriteiten en de opstandelingen wijzen naar elkaar als schuldige voor de enorme brand in een olieterminal bij Ras Lanuf. Volgens de Libische staatstelevisie zijn door al-Qaida gesteunde groepen verantwoordelijk voor de explosies in de olie-opslagtanks. De opstandelingen zeggen juist dat legervliegtuigen een oliepijpleiding en de opslagtanks hebben gebombardeerd, meldt Reuters.

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HouSolidarity Saif gaddafi's london mansion has been occupied in solidarity with the revolution in libya. 7 Winnington Close N2, East Finchley. Twitter - 1 uur geleden

HamandHigh BREAKING NEWS: Activists have occupied Saif Gaddafi's Hampstead Garden Suburb mansion in support of the Libyan revolution, they say. Twitter - 1 uur geleden

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Squatters take over Colonel Gaddafi's son's £11m London mansion

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Op woensdag 9 maart 2011 15:21 schreef MangoTree het volgende:
Poll HP/de Tijd

Kadhafi duikt later vandaag op in...

[ ] Saoedi-Arabië, waar ex-dictators nog ouderwets in de watten worden gelegd.
[ ] Paraguay, waar je nog ouderwets kunt verdwijnen in de cokejungle.
[ ] Tripoli, alwaar hij vanuit een botsautootje verkondigt alles onder controle te hebben.
[ ] Hij duikt nergens op. De man verdwijnt van de aardbodem à la Osama bin Laden.

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Op woensdag 9 maart 2011 16:27 schreef deleriouz het volgende:
Nice!!

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http://www.thisislondon.c(...)pound-11m-mansion.do

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Op woensdag 9 maart 2011 16:29 schreef MangoTree het volgende:

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^{Protest: squatters unfurl an anti-Gaddafi banner from the roof of the empty home owned by Saif Gaddafi in Hampstead Garden Suburb}

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Op woensdag 9 maart 2011 16:30 schreef Dekatria het volgende:

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Mhahaha wat een bazen

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Op woensdag 9 maart 2011 16:32 schreef MangoTree het volgende:

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"One of the first things we did was put on Al-Jazeera on the huge flat screen television."

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Op woensdag 9 maart 2011 16:32 schreef MangoTree het volgende:

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"One of the first things we did was put on Al-Jazeera on the huge flat screen television."

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Op woensdag 9 maart 2011 16:36 schreef Dekatria het volgende:

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Hahahaha

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Op woensdag 9 maart 2011 16:30 schreef Dekatria het volgende:

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Mhahaha wat een bazen

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http://www.guardian.co.uk(...)sistance-no-fly-zone
Colonel Muammar Gaddafi has warned that the imposition of a no-fly zone in Libyan airspace will be met with armed resistance and taken as proof that western powers are trying to steal his country's oil.

His defiant remarks came as pro-Gaddafi forces continued their assault on the city of Zawiyah and the country's rebel leadership pleaded for the international community to close down Libyan airspace.

Britain and the US have discussed the creation of an internationally backed no-fly zone as a contingency plan in case Gaddafi refuses to step down in response to the popular uprising that erupted last month.

In an interview broadcast on Wednesday by Turkey's state-run TRT news channel, Gaddafi said: "If they take such a decision it will be useful for Libya, because the Libyan people will see the truth, that what they want is to take control of Libya and to steal their oil.

"They want to take your petrol," he said. "This is what America, this is what the French, those colonialists, want." But he warned: "The Libyan people will take up arms against them."

Barack Obama and David Cameron have agreed "to press forward with planning, including at Nato, on the full spectrum of possible responses, including surveillance, humanitarian assistance, enforcement of the arms embargo, and a no-fly zone".

The US secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, has made it clear that Washington believes any decision to impose a no-fly zone is a matter for the UN and should not be a US-led initiative.

Opponents of Gaddafi on the front line between the rebel-controlled east and the regime's forces in the west have become increasingly frustrated at the international community's failure to act. Rebels constantly fire machine guns into the air to try to fend off attacking warplanes.

"They had a no-fly zone in Iraq," a rebel volunteer, Naji Saleh, told Reuters near the oil town of Ras Lanuf. "Why is Gaddafi their darling and Saddam Hussein was not?".

The rebel leadership in the eastern city of Benghazi said their representatives were in touch with foreign capitals about the imposition of a no-fly zone.

"We are concentrating our diplomatic efforts and working hard. But as always, they [foreign powers] are reluctant. One day we think they will take action soon," said Iman Bugaigis, a spokesman for the rebel February 17 coalition.

An opposition group fighting Gaddafi's regime has called for a no-fly zone over Libya even without the UN's blessing, but has ruled out the presence of foreign troops on Libyan soil.

Speaking at the European parliament, an official with the umbrella group for eastern rebels said that if it came to a choice between preventing people being slaughtered or accepting political disagreement within the UN security council, the decision was easy.

Mahmoud Jebril said the only condition would be to enforce the zone from outside Libya.

EU parliament groups meeting in Strasbourg are preparing to call on member states to recognise Jebril's newly created interim governing council in Benghazi.

Gaddafi has also accused the UN security council of bypassing its own processes to act against Libya and repeated his claims that the revolt had been inspired by foreign al-Qaida militants who have freed prisoners and paid young men to fight for them.

He has accused western governments and media of falling for al-Qaida propaganda that blamed government forces for unleashing violence on the Libyan people.

In an interview with France's LCI television, Gaddafi said: "I'd have to be mad to shoot at peaceful demonstrators. I'd never have done that. I'd never have allowed anyone to be shot."

He also warned the international community that the collapse of Libya would bring an end to security in the region, telling TRT: "The world will change its attitude towards Libya because Libyan stability means the security of the Mediterranean sea.

"It will be a huge disaster if al-Qaida takes over Libya. Al-Qaida would flood Europe with immigrants. We are the ones who prevent al-Qaida from taking over control. They would drag the whole region into chaos … Al-Qaida would take over north Africa."

Meanwhile, Libyan forces loyal to Gaddafi have closed in on rebels in the western city of Zawiyah, surrounding them with tanks and snipers in the main square, according to a resident and a rebel fighter.

"We can see the tanks. The tanks are everywhere," Ibrahim told Reuters by phone from inside Zawiyah, the closest rebel city to the capital, Tripoli.

A resident added: "They have surrounded the square with snipers and tanks. The situation is not so good. It's very scary. There are a lot of snipers."

Ibrahim said forces loyal to Gaddafi were in control of the main road and the suburbs. Although rebel forces still controlled the square, pro-Gaddafi fighters were about 1,500 metres away.

Ibrahim said army snipers were on top of most of the buildings, shooting at anyone who dared to venture from their homes.

"There are many dead people and they can't even bury them," he said. "Zawiyah is deserted. There's nobody on the streets. No animals, not even birds in the sky."

A government spokesman said that while troops were mostly in control of Zawiyah, there was still a small pocket of 30-40 "desperate" resistance fighters.

Foreign reporters have been prevented from entering Zawiyah, 30 miles west of Tripoli, and other cities near the capital without an official escort.

Human rights activists estimate more than 1,000 people have been killed since the uprising began in mid-February.

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Op woensdag 9 maart 2011 16:50 schreef Muridae het volgende:
Is dat niet gewoon inbraak?

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Op woensdag 9 maart 2011 16:50 schreef Muridae het volgende:
Is dat niet gewoon inbraak?

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Op woensdag 9 maart 2011 16:52 schreef Papierversnipperaar het volgende:

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Nee, het is een opstand. De revolutie breidt zich uit.

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Op woensdag 9 maart 2011 16:57 schreef Maron het volgende:
Wie zal dit geweest zijn..?
"A man arrived in a black Porsche and had to be calmed down by police before driving away."

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Op woensdag 9 maart 2011 16:29 schreef MangoTree het volgende:

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^{Protest: squatters unfurl an anti-Gaddafi banner from the roof of the empty home owned by Saif Gaddafi in Hampstead Garden Suburb}

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3.46pm: Libyan government emissaries have flown to Brussels to talk to European and NATO officials ahead of the organisations meetings on Thursday and Friday, the Italian foreign minister, Franco Frattini, said today. It seems that Gaddafi is on a diplomatic offensive but what his representatives are putting on the table, if anything, is unclear. From Reuters:

"Two aircraft of the Libyan regime appear to have left Libya for Brussels with the intention of enabling emissaries of Gaddafi to meet representatives taking part in the meetings of the EU and NATO tomorrow and the next day," Frattini said.

He noted that the visits to Cairo and Brussels suggested that the situation was very fluid and he cautioned against taking any action which might be premature. "I don't know what will be said in Cairo, I don't know who will meet whom in Brussels but these movements are a fact that we have to take account of," he said.

Earlier, a Maltese official said Libyan emissaries had arrived on the Mediterranean island on Wednesday for talks with Maltese officials, and then flown to Portugal. There was no immediate confirmation from Lisbon but a source in Brussels said the plane was carrying a moderate member of Gaddafi's government to meet Luis Amado, the Portuguese foreign minister.