Oorlog in Libi� #97. Meer bescherming gewenst.

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Op vrijdag 8 april 2011 16:39 schreef svann het volgende:
Misrata: bombardementen, snipers, vaak geen water en stroom, vernielde riolering (dreigt te overstromen).

مشاهد من شارع طرابلس في مصراته ليبيا

Vertaling commentaar: http://feb17.info/media/video-misrata-april-6-2011

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Libische rebellen zijn vrijdag begonnen met het verven van de daken van hun tanks. Ze hopen dat de vliegtuigen van de NAVO hen herkennen als bondgenoten als hun tanks roze zijn.

� AFP
De rebellen besloten hiertoe nadat tot twee keer toe per ongeluk een tank van de rebellen was gebombardeerd.
De NAVO stelde vrijdag niet te hebben geweten dat de opstandelingen in Libi� tanks gebruiken. NAVO-topman Anders Fogh Rasmussen verklaarde ''het verlies aan levens'' zeer te betreuren.

De rebellen stelden daarop ''niet op zoek te zijn naar een excuus, maar naar een uitleg''. ''Het lijkt erop dat de communicatie niet goed is verlopen'', aldus een zegsman van de rebellen. De NAVO stelde al dat de communicatie met de rebellen moet worden verbeterd.

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Op vrijdag 8 april 2011 18:01 schreef Pannenkoekenmix het volgende:

Mooi om te zien, de rebellen doen ook hun best om problemen zelf op te lossen (in plaats van alleen maar met het vingertje wijzen).

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Op vrijdag 8 april 2011 23:46 schreef svann het volgende:
Journalisten zijn vandaag vanuit Tripoli op overheidsdagtocht naar Misrata geweest.
De helft werd daar even rondgeleid, de andere helft bleef voor de stad steken.
Merkwaardige trip weer met meer dan tien uur bussen.

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MISRATA, Libya (AP) Moammar Gadhafi's government brought foreign journalists to Misrata on Friday to show that its forces hold significant control over the only major city in western Libya still in rebel hands, but the trip suggested that their situation had if anything grown more dire after weeks of laying siege to the enemy's stronghold.

Reporters were bused to the same intersection, more than a mile (2 kilometers) from downtown, where government officials took them about 10 days ago. Back then, it was to show the effects of a NATO airstrike. This time, it was simply as far as the tour could go before the sounds of gunfire and shelling forced officials to turn around.

At one point, the journalists took cover amid gunfire. A Libyan soldier, Walid Mohammed Walid, received a head wound in the shooting and was taken to a hospital.

Buildings were heavily pockmarked from battle, as they were previously. But while Gadhafi's forces at the intersection were seen on open ground on the earlier visit, this time the few soldiers there were hiding out in buildings or on rooftops.

The scene along the road from Tripoli, dotted with burned-out tanks, anti-aircraft guns hidden by vegetation and checkpoints made of tires and sand banks, underscored the devastating struggle over Misrata. It is the most sustained conflict in the Libyan uprising and the focus of a growing international efforts to bring aid by sea to besieged residents caught in the crossfire.

Just 100 miles (160 kilometers) southeast of the capital Tripoli, Misrata is symbolic and strategic for both sides, each of which holds key parts of Libya's third-largest city.

Rebels, who hold central neighborhoods and the critical port area, want to hang onto an important foothold deep in Gadhafi's territory.

Government forces surround the city and patrol the main roadways. Their aim is to consolidate control over the west in preparation for a possible push against largely rebel-held eastern Libya.

As a group of international journalists approached Misrata on Friday's government-controlled visit, smoke could be seen coming out of the city from the distance. In the area where the tour turned back, streets and homes were utterly deserted.

Even as the showdown deepens, NATO has struggled with how to work Misrata into its airstrike missions. The alliance has been cautious about waging bombing runs in the city because of the risk of civilian casualties.

Even the limited look inside Misrata was unusual. Libyan officials have tried to block journalists from entering the city, although a few reporters have entered previously by sea.

It was unclear which side had the upper hand in the latest fighting. But a witness said rebel forces were trying to keep Gadhafi's troops from taking full control of a route linking central Misrata to its port, a crucial lifeline for ships carrying humanitarian supplies into the battle zone.

The witness's account could not be independently verified. There also were no credible reports on casualties. Verder.

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Huffington Post - NEW YORK -- Former Congressman Curt Weldon (R-Penn.), who arrived in Tripoli this week on a "private mission" to ask Muammar Gaddafi to step aside, left Libya today after failing to meet privately with the strongman.

The lawmaker, who has traveled to Libya more than any other Congressman and has established close ties to the Gaddafi family, expressed his disappointment in a statement sent to The Huffington Post by Weldon's daughter, Kristin Weldon Peri. "I am disappointed that I did not get to sit down face to face with Col. Qadaffi as promised, but I may have been able to get something even more significant -- a path to a resolution of this conflict. Anytime you are asked to play a part in advancing the cause of peace there is a moral obligation to say yes."

Weldon, who says he was invited to Libya by Gaddafi's chief of staff, Dr. Bashir Saleh, said that his message to government officials he met in Tripoli "was in direct support of the state public positions of President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton." Verder.

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Op zaterdag 9 april 2011 01:34 schreef svann het volgende:
AJE 10:40pm
NATO airstrikes have hit weapons depots belonging to Gaddafi's forces near the town of Zintan, a resident told Reuters:
The depots are situated 15km southeast of Zintan. We could see buildings on fire in the distance.
First we heard aircraft and then we counted some 14 explosions.
Some people used binoculars and saw buildings on fire
Rebels believe some of the depots were destroyed but not all. We are talking about huge facilities.

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Op zaterdag 9 april 2011 01:41 schreef svann het volgende:

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Je komt thuis uit de kroeg en komt weer even een rondje opmerkingen droppen?
Je hebt een fraai oeuvre.

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Op zaterdag 9 april 2011 01:57 schreef boekenplank het volgende:

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Wat moeten we dan met jullie tweets? Wat wil je ermee? Heb je een standpunt in deze? Je steunt alle opstandelingen in het Midden Oosten, waarom? Gaan ze het beter krijgen als de zittende heersers weg zijn? Zo ja, waar leidt je dit aan af of leg het mij eens uit.

edit: boekenplank komt niet in kroegen teveel paupers.

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Op zaterdag 9 april 2011 12:05 schreef remlof het volgende:
Is er nog iets bekend over die Nederlandse Lynx? Kan me zo voorstellen dat als ie nog op het strand van Syrte stond toen de luchtaanvallen begonnen de coalitie 'm aan flarden heeft geschoten.

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Op zaterdag 9 april 2011 13:13 schreef MisterJ.Lo het volgende:

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Dat is wel het laatste waar je je zorgen om moet maken.