Italy, France, sending troops to advise the Libyan rebels - CNN International

Will there be a Libya military intervention for humanitarian reasons?New: Italy sends troops to advise the rebels in self-defense France and Britain are sending military advisers and the United Nations human rights Chief, says attacks in Misrata could constitute an international crimesUNICEF, said 20 children have been killed and more injured in many spokesman MisrataA rebelsays it is not the international fighters to join the rebels

Tripoli, Libya (CNN) - France and the Italy announced Wednesday that they will send military officers to advise the rebels to fight for the overthrow of the regime of leader Libyan Muammar Gaddafi.

Following a similar announcement by the British Government Tuesday, French Government spokesman Francois Baroin said that a "small number" of French troops sent to advise the National Council of transition from the rebels.

G?rard Longuet French Defence Minister exclude still send ground troops to fight alongside the rebels. "It's a real question that deserves an international debate", he said, adding, "We are working for the resolution of 1973," a reference to the United Nations resolution authorizing the action in Libya. "You cannot please everyone all the time," he said.

Italy will send military advisers to train rebels in self-defense tactics, Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman Maurizio Massari announced.

Britain said Tuesday that he sent a contingent of officers experienced in an advisory role to the stronghold of rebels in Benghazi. The team will work with the National Council of transition on how the opposition can improve military organisational structures, communications and logistics, said the British Ministry of Foreign Affairs. It will also help the delivery of critical assistance.

"This deployment is fully under resolution 1973 both preparedness and its provision expressly excluding a force of foreign occupation on Libyan soil," said Foreign Secretary William Hague.

Efforts to strengthen the rebellion come as main opposition organization the Libya pleaded for international military intervention.

Libyans are "being killed each day by the forces of Gaddafi," rebel spokesman Shamsiddin Abdulmolah said Tuesday CNN.

The High Commissioner of the United Nations in the human rights said Wednesday that some of the attacks of the Libyan Government on the siege of Misrata city may constitute international crimes.

A statement by the Office of Navi Pillay said it condemned "the reported repeated use of cluster munitions and weapons of heavy weapons by the forces of the Libyan Government in their attempt to regain control of the city under siege from Misrata and said that such attacks on densely populated areas of civilian casualties urbainesentra?nant substantial"could be regarded as international crimes. ?

"Pro-Government forces besieging the city, including their commanders and all other members of staff, must be aware that - with the international criminal court investigating possible crimes - their orders and their actions will be subject to scrutiny""," Pillay said in the statement. "International law, targeting deliberate medical facilities is a war crime, and targeting deliberate or reckless endangering civilians may also constitute serious violations of international humanitarian law or human rights international law".

UNICEF, the children, United Nations agency said Wednesday that 20 children were killed and "countless others wounded" in single Misrata.

Among the rebels, requests for assistance have increased every day.

Aid agencies are afraid to go to such areas as Misrata, that is targeted by Gaddafi troops daily, militant opposition that Mohamed Ibrahim said. "Some of them, they come." But most of them, they come close... they hear the bombing and everything, and they go back, "he says.

At least 27 people were killed and 142 were injured this week, according to a spokesman of the opposition who wanted to be identified only as "Mohammed" for security reasons.

Aid groups were trying to pull the desperate people of Misrata, which is hampered by the forces of Gaddafi on three sides.

The only way to escape is by port of the city - a witnesses in the region, said also was bombed by the forces of Gaddafi.

For those who have left behind, witnesses said, the disastrous situation continues to deteriorate. The city is still without water, electricity and telecommunications, Mohammed said Tuesday. "Bombing has moved out of the industrial areas to residential areas, and it is still in progress."

Rebel spokesman Abdulmolah said that the National Council of transition the opposition does not oppose a humanitarian mission on the ground.

"Something must be done so that we can stop the bloodshed of our people," he said.

But "we don't want any military presence foreign or any veterans international with our rebels," he added.

NATO is leading an international military operation which includes targeting military resources of Gaddafi with airstrikes.

NATO said that the operation has destroyed seven bunkers of munitions in the area of Tripoli and equipment in other parts of the country this week.

NATO attacked three regime battle tanks and an artillery piece mounted on vehicle in and around Misrata Tuesday, spokesman for the British Army major-General John Lorimer said Wednesday.

Abdulmolah said the NATO strikes may also prevent more destruction in eastern Libya, particularly near Benghazi.

"We have received reports that Gaddafi forces were mobilizing their troops and their systems of missile mobile/rockets of Brega to Ajdabiya bomb Benghazi." They were the strikes of NATO stopped by (Tuesday), "he says.

But he said that the opposition wants weapons and "technical assistance", "because we are faced with a ruthless tyrant who wants to kill his own people, simply because they asked for freedom and liberty." CNN Saad Abedine, Andreena Narayan, Reza Sayah, Yousuf Basil and Ben Wedeman contributed to this report.

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Libya rebels reject peace plan - Times of India

BENGHAZI: Mustafa Abdul Jalil Monday the Libyan leader of the rebels rejected an initiative African Union for a ceasefire with the forces of Muammar al-Gaddafi and demanded the eviction of veteran strongman. "This initiative (African Union) has now been exceeded." As soon as "the first day that the application of our people was the eviction of Gaddafi and the fall of his regime, Abdul Jalil told a press conference of Benghazi held the rebels."

"Gaddafi and his sons must leave immediately if they want to be safe...". Any initiative which does not include the popular demand, the popular demand, application key, we can possibly recognize. "Abdul Jalil refused any sort of mediation which would allow Gaddafi stay and invective against the strong man. "We cannot negotiate with the blood of our matryrs." "We are going to die with them or become victorious and of God, will we will be victorious,", said the rebel leader.

Jalili remarks came after discussions with a delegation of African heads of State of Benghazi Monday, a day after Gaddafi has accepted the peace proposal. The President of South Africa Jacob Zuma, said that Tripoli had accepted the plan of the African Union for a ceasefire that would stop the NATO bombing campaign.

About 200 people waving rebel flags gathered outside the airport, Benghazi, arrival of the delegation to the, to welcome his efforts, but demanding the overthrow of Kadhafi.

In Ajdabiya, a correspondent saw more than a dozen burned trucks that pro-Gaddafi fighters were equipped with heavy machine guns for their offensive failed on the front between eastern line held of rebels and Government-held West.

Many of the bodies that rebel fighters buried near battlefield on the outskirts of the city were charred beyond recognition after a NATO strike, combined with their own efforts to push the loyalist assault. We found 35 bodies, with two more melted in the vehicles,"said a rebel fighter. AFP

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No truce Libya until Gaddafi goes: rebels

Leaders of the opposition Libya Monday roundly rejected a cease-fire plan hatched the day before between leader Muammar al-Gaddafi and dignitaries African Union, no agreement, it is possible to Gaddafi and his sons to abandon power.

"Kadhafi and his son must immediately leave the territory," said Mustafa Abdul-Jalil, a Minister of justice former who split with Gaddafi and leaders based in Benghazi Transitional National Council, a handful of countries recognize as the legitimate Government.

Abdul Jalil said the proposal of the African Union "did not respond to the aspirations of the Libyan people" and implies political reforms only.

Thousands of demonstrators in the city of bastion Benghazi opposition demonstrated outside the hotel where the five country African Union delegation arrived Monday to confer with the rebels. Envoys to y, including South African President Jacob Zuma, Gaddafi met on Sunday and said that he agreed to a plan for a ceasfire, the opening of channels for humanitarian aid and talks between the rebels and the Government.

But the opposition of the Libya has little faith in the African Union, which he considered as too sympathetic to Qaddafi. He enjoys substantial support from countries of the African Union, an organization he chaired two years earlier and helped transform using the oil wealth of the Libya.

Locals on the ground, said that they did not expect the talks to nothing - and if the proposal is called in any way that Gaddafi and his son to stay in power, they wanted nothing to do with it, Derek Stoffel CBC reported.

"Gaddafi and all his sons must leave the Libya so that we can have democracy," demonstrating Jilal Tajouri said.

Son of Gaddafi Seif el-Islam said it is "totally ridiculous" to discuss same out of his father to power, but he acknowledged that the direction of the country is in need of an infusion of "new blood".

"The departure of [Gadhafi] what this either not change because the Libyan people allow a terrorist group to run the Libya," al-Islam, said in an interview with the chain of BFM broadcast Monday French information.

"If the West wants that democracy, a new constitution, elections, we are in agreement....". But aerial bombardment, the support to rebel groups, everything that is counterproductive. ?

The opposition also wants what he calls "freedom of expression" - essentially, freedom for people to openly manifest against Gaddafi. If they can do that without armed Government reprisals, the opposition feels, the conflict will be more quickly that people feel safe enough to demonstrate in the streets of Tripoli.

The meetings of Monday came hours after Gaddafi tanks beating NATO air strikes, assisting government troops previous opposition push that had been advancing towards Benghazi.

While diplomatic efforts continued behind the scenes, the battle continued on the ground. After the recovery of the city of Adjabiyah on Monday, rebels bombed Brega with the rockets, trying to return to the fortress.

The rebels, said Neil Macdonald of CBC News, they have been in constant contact with NATO forces - a marked departure from the debacle of last week, when veterans more than two dozen opposition were killed accidentally in a NATO airstrike after the pilot thought rebel tanks seized were troops of Gaddafi.

This communication link is important, because it closer NATO in a war effort was coordinated with the rebels against the forces of Kadhafi fieldwork, something Western leaders have been reluctant to recognize could happen.

"NATO welcomes all contributions to the broad international effort to stem the violence against the civilian population," said Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Secretary General of NATO.

Protesters demonstrate in Benghazi, where a delegation of the African Union has been meeting with the Libyan opposition leaders to try to forge a ceasefire. (Derek Stoffel/CBC) Records of the SRC Derek Stoffel and Neil Macdonald returned to the accessibility links

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Diplomats speak as rebels lose ground in Libya - CNN International

A Libyan uninterrupted holds a portrait of Muammar al-Gaddafi in Misrata Friday. UA members are due to talks over the weekend.New: Pro-Gaddafi forces attack the African AjdabiyaAn Union City Committee plans to meet with the leaders of the opposition of Benghazi this legislature of U.S. weekendFormer Weldon leaves Libya with a letter, but no meeting with the GadhafiOpposition forces are regularly pushed back by troops of the Gadhafi

Tripoli, Libya (CNN) - African leaders were meeting Saturday to try to end impasse of the Libya, bloody as advanced forces loyal to Muammar al-Gaddafi attack Ajdabiya, the city of the East where the opposition had reveled in victoryThere are just two weeks.

Special Committee of the African Union on the Libya - represented by Mauritania, Republic of the Congo, Mali, Uganda and South Africa - was held in Mauritania and will travel to the bastion Libyan rebels of Benghazi Sunday and Monday to meet with the leaders of the oppositionthe South African Government.

The South African Government has also said that NATO has granted the approval of the Committee meet with embattled leader Muammar al-Gaddafi in the Libyan capital, Tripoli.

Gaddafi has been a great supporter of the African Union and has channeled large sums of money his way. Libya also holds a seat on the peace and the 15-Member Security Council. As such, the leaders of the opposition in Benghazi have not expressed optimism on the success of the mediation.

The Organization of the United Nations has said that Secretary General Ban Ki - moon will travel to Cairo, Egypt, Thursday next headed meetings on the Libya at the headquarters of the Arab League. Among the participants will Catherine Ashton, the representative for Foreign Affairs and security of the European Union.

The Libya State television, broadcast at the same time, images of a fist-pumping Gaddafi, visiting what appeared to be a primary school in Tripoli. The anchor said the school was the target of international air attacks and would be attacked.

Former legislator to U.S. Curt Weldon visited the Libya this week hoping to speak directly with Gaddafi but left without a meeting. He managed to obtain a letter of strong man to the US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

"I am disappointed that I did not have to sit down face to face with Colonel Gadhafi, as promised, but I can have to do something even more important - a path to a resolution of this conflict," Weldon said in a statement to his departure.

Weldon visited the Libya in 2004 when he was a Republican member of the Pennsylvania and said that he was invited at this time by Gaddafi.

In the attempts of the diplomacy, Libya war raged on the ground.

In the back-and-forth battle for Ajdabiya, Gaddafi forces attack with an artillery barrage at the West gates of the city, forcing the rebels to retreat.

Street fighting erupted as the Loyalists, aided by sympathizers, entered the city and opposition fighters seem to have all but lost to hard-won territory.

At the height of their March towards Tripoli, rebel within 40 km (25 miles) from Sirte - hometown of Gadhafi in the West of the Libya. But the loyalist forces have constantly pushed back the rebels and are now ready to get off the highway at Benghazi, capital of the opposition.

The road to litter Burnt carcasses of Libyan army tanks by planes of the coalition, three weeks ago. But it is more difficult to distinguish between the troops of pro-Gaddafi. They changed of tactical and likely to move in civilian vehicles.

Men holding a defence light in Ajdabiya said that they were a formidable enemy.

"Gaddafi troops have good weapons and have training and have leadership and experience, a Hunter of rebels a.Ben Wedeman, Reza Sayah and Nic Robertson CNN has contributed to this report."

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Libya rebels accuse NATO retain in the fight against the Gadhafi - Ha'aretz

Libyan rebels found on the ground in a new advance on the port of Brega oil on Wednesday but accused NATO of inaction that hamper their quest to oust Muammar al-Gaddafi.

NATO said that Kadhafi was makes more increasingly difficult for pilots to conduct air strikes by ensconcing its forces in densely populated areas and use civilians as human shields.

Vehicles belonging to the forces loyal to the Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi burn after an air strike by the forces of the coalition, along a road between Benghazi and Ajdabiyah on March 20, 2011.

Although the rebels have someheadway, they complained a lack of support for NATO bombers.

"Government forces are afraid of the air strikes of NATO but NATO is not bombing anything first place," said rebel Idriss Abdel Karim.

"No there were no air strikes." We hear the sound, but they did bomb anything, said Hossam Ahmed, another rebel.

"What NATO expected?" We have towns that are destroyed. Ras Lanuf, Bin Jawad, Brega, Gaddafi is completely destroying the Misrata "added said Emburak, a resident of Ajdabiyah."

NATO airstrikes are targeting the military infrastructure of Gaddafi but only to protect civilians, not step to provide air support closer to the rebels, much to their dismay, as part of a
no-fly zone mandated by the United Nations Security Council.

Still, their abandonment applications since the NATO mission to a coalition of U.S. - British-French, including initial onslaught on Gaddafi in forcé had tilted the average rebel war, to the Western military alliance on the defensive.

Spokesperson Carmen Romero maintained that "the pace of our operations continues." "tirelessly he has not changed the ambition and the position of our strikes"

The NATO spokesman added that the relieve the siege of Misrata, a rebel enclave in the West, remains the priority, but conceded that army Gaddafi has prove smart, elusive target.

"The situation on the ground is changing." Gaddafi forces change tactics, using civilian vehicles, tanks in cities such as Misrata masking and the use of human shields is to hide behind, "Romero said to journalists in Brussels.

It reiterated the position of NATO air power had destroyed 30 per cent of the military capability of Gaddafi so far.

Western air power has shaped a rough military balance in Libya, preventing them from Gaddafi the troops of the motley rebel force of overflow that dominates the is - but not sufficiently vigorous for the insurgents to firmly advance hundreds of kilometres along the Mediterranean coast to the capital Tripoli in the West.

French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe said NATO operations are at risk of "founder us" because the forces of Gaddafi were makes it more difficult for the pilots of the alliance to distinguish them from civilians by mixing in populated areas.

He said radio France Info that it will address the issue with the head of NATO, adding that the test in bastion rebel Misrata "can not go" but that "the situation is not clear."

Head of the armed forces of Admiral Edouard Guillaud, France, said on Europe 1 radio: "I would be as things go faster but... average civilian fire protection not anywhere close to them." This is precisely the difficulty. ?

Misrata, under fire daily artillery, tanks and sniper, is the Centre of single large population in the West of the Libya - about 200 km (120 miles) is Tripoli - where a popular uprising two months against Gaddafi was not stamped out.

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