Gaddafi wants to start a guerrilla war

The former Libyan strongman run, Muammar Gaddafi, said he wanted to launch a "guerrilla" to fight the rebels, excluding totally go in two audio messages broadcast within a few hours Thursday by television Arrai.
"Get ready for a war of gangs and guerrillas in urban warfare, and popular resistance in each city (...) to defeat the enemy everywhere," he said in a message in the evening and where his voice seemed calm and collected compared to his speeches usually inflamed.
"The objective is to kill the enemy wherever he is, whether Libya or abroad," said Gaddafi, who persists in his defiance as he is hunted down by the rebels since the fall of his headquarters in Bab al-Aziziyah in Tripoli on August 23.
These two records happen on the anniversary of the coup that brought Gaddafi to power in September 1969 and the first day of a meeting in Paris of the UN and major powers that have drawn a road map rebellion, immediately releasing $ 15 billion against the promise of democracy and reconciliation.
Meanwhile, Paris, London and NATO have said that the international military operations would continue as Muammar Qadhafi remains a threat.
"I call on the Libyan men and women, to prepare for resistance, a long war that was imposed on us," he told Muammar Gaddafi. He accused the countries participating in NATO operations of "wanting to colonize Libya, and get their hands on its oil and water."
"Colonialism is that Libyans are killing each other, means the submission of the Libyans, but we will never submit, we prefer to die," he said.
"We will never allow our wells and our ports are under their control, and our resistance will grow," he said, asserting that "all of which are armed tribes will fight by our side."
"No region will accept to be subject to your aircraft," said Mr Gaddafi, referring to NATO, which helped the rebels in the conflict, launching air strikes on the positions of forces loyal to the regime.
"The struggle continues, we are ready for a war long, long, long until we vainquions," he said. "Do not expect that we leave our land (...) and no doubt will be won this war, this act of evil."
In a message broadcast in the afternoon by the same television based in Damascus, Gaddafi said he would not surrender. "We we will not. We are not women and we will continue the fight. If they want a long battle, whether it be long. If Libya (...) burns it burns".
He said that the rebels could not take control of its last bastions. "Who can submit Bani Walid (south), Sirte (east) or Tarhouna? These cities are home to tribes armed and no one can govern without the consent of Libya."
This is the sixth audio message from the former Libyan leader since the assault on August 20 by the rebels in the capital Tripoli they control.
In Tripoli, Ahmed Darrat, in charge of the Interior in the executive branch of the National Transitional Council (CNT), the political arm of the rebellion, said that Gaddafi's speech is "desperate and miserable."
August 24, the rebels announced a reward of nearly $ 1.7 million for the head of Muammar Gaddafi, dead or alive.
Thursday, Vice President of CNT, Abdel Hafiz Ghoga said it could be at Bani Walid, southeast of Tripoli. The rebels also cited Sirte region of origin of the Libyan colonel still in the hands of pro-Gaddafi, one of the possible refuges from the former leader.
On 1 September 1969, the "Movement of Free Officers unionists", led by Muammar Gaddafi, had put King Idris and established a Council of Revolutionary Command.

The Arab League: initiative to resolve the crisis

The Arab League has reinstated Saturday to Libya under the representation of the rebel National Transitional Council (CNT), after he was suspended from membership in February by the repression of demonstrations at the hands of security forces of the regime of Muammar Gaddafi .

This decision has produced an extraordinary meeting held at the headquarters of the organization in the Egyptian capital, Cairo, where the Libyan delegation was represented by Minister of Foreign Affairs of the CNT, Mahmoud Jibril. This involves recognizing the rebels as the legitimate representative of the Libyan people. The general secretary, Nabil al Araby, has called on Arab countries to release Libyan assets from banks as a sign of support for the CNT at the request of Jibril.

As reported by Reuters, the Arab League has also called on the international community and the Security Council of UN-Libyan thaw funds immediately. For his part, Jibril has urged his fellow Arabs to help Libya in the country's reconstruction and stabilization, as reported by the Qatari al-Jazeera network. Outside the headquarters of the Arab League, an individual has current Libyan flag replaced by the rebels. In March, the Arab League and supported the resolution by the Security Council of the UN that allowed foreign military intervention in Libya.

The number two, Atiyah Abd al-Radham, killed in Pakistan

The Libyan Atiyah Abd al-Radham killed by a U.S. drone. Serious hit the international terrorist organization Al Qaeda, after the killing of Osama bin Laden, has lost even the current number two of the movement, the Libyan Al-Attiyah Abd Rahman. His death on August 22 in Waziristan, was announced today in the United States. The American sources have not provided details of the circumstances of the attack, stating only that the death occurred during an attack against a drone of a vehicle with four people on board in the Norwak in the district of Mir Ali.

The disappearance of Al-Rahman, a long time representative of Al Qaeda in Iran and was a member of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group and Ansar al-Sunna is in a '"big loss" for the organization, because its current leader Ayman al-Zawahri, "had a lot" about him, said a senior Pentagon.

On the head of the terrorist, long considered the chief operating officer of the movement of the "sheikh of terror", hung a bounty of one million dollars. The connection between it and Bin Laden, and responsibilities delegated to him, also would emerge from the documents found in laptop computers seized during the attack of the commando group of Navy Seals to the residence of Abbottabad.

Iraqi Forces are Aware of The Attack

BAGHDAD- Improved security in Baghdad and a lull in assassinations in the last three weeks may merely signal that armed groups are preparing a major attack in the Iraqi capital, a senior official said.

Violence has dropped sharply overall since the height of Iraq's sectarian conflict in 2006-2007, but both Shi'ite and Sunni Muslim groups remain responsible for killings, bombings and attacks that usually happen almost daily.

May was the most violent month in Baghdad this year with 72 attempted assassinations -- of which 28 were fatal -- mostly targeting police, army and officials. "The rate of assassinations dropped to its lowest and the rate of attacks using improvised explosive devices dropped a lot and car bombs almost disappeared," Major General Hassan al-Baidhani, chief of staff for the Baghdad operations command, told Reuters in an interview this week.



"Such indications reflect the enemy plans to carry out a major operation, a large scale operation," Baidhani said.

Iraqi forces are taking over full responsibility for security as remaining U.S. troops prepare to withdraw from the country at the end of 2011, more than eight years after the invasion that toppled Sunni dictator Saddam Hussein.

Baidhani said Iraqi security forces have carried out operations targeting Baghdad murder squads, arresting mostly members tied to al Qaeda-affiliated organizations. But surviving members and their rivals remain a threat.

Iraqi officials acknowledge local armed forces face some gaps in their capabilities as they tackle an al Qaeda-linked Sunni Islamist insurgency and Shi'ite militias which Washington says are backed by neighboring Iran.

Iraqi has many illegal armed groups, from the al Qaeda-linked Sunni Islamic State of Iraq or ISI, others tied to Saddam's outlawed Baath party and dozens of splinter organizations formed around the Shi'ite Mehdi Army militia.

Until this month's drop in killings, a spree of attacks targeting senior police and army officers in Baghdad was carried out by Shi'ite militias concerned about a resurgence of the Baath party when U.S. troops leave, security officials told Reuters.

While Iraqi and U.S. forces have made progress, militants have stepped up attacks on soldiers and police this year as they try to destabilize the government while U.S. troops pack up.

U.S. officials have blamed Iranian-backed militants for a rise in attacks on their troops.

Baidhani said he believed organizations affiliated to al Qaeda remain the most likely and capable of carrying out attacks after 2011, while former Baath party organizations are confined to certain areas in the capital which can be controlled.

"Defunct Baath organizations are a mixture of al Qaeda and other groups," Baidhani said. "The Americans are now a burden on Iraqi units. (Writing by Suadad al-Salhy, Editing by Patrick Markey and David Stamp)

Panetta: "Strategically defeating" al-Qaeda

U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, predicting that “strategically defeating” al-Qaeda is within reach, is scheduled to meet with Afghan security officials and American troops on his second day in Afghanistan today.
A successful handover of security responsibility to the Afghans hinges on the capability of their own security forces, Panetta said yesterday. In his last job as director of the Central Intelligence Agency, Panetta oversaw the Navy SEALs operation in May that killed al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden.
The combination of that pressure and the squeeze on al- Qaeda in Yemen and elsewhere creates “a real prospect” for “strategic dismantling or strategic defeat,” he said.

Abdul Satar Mirzokhel: Those night raids have broken the back of the Taliban

 KABUL, Taliban — United States Special Operations forces have carried out an extraordinary number of night raids over the past year, turning them into one of their most effective tools against the insurgents even as they stir accusations of abuse, resentment among Afghans and divisions with the government.Last year’s influx of coalition forces brought with it the kind of intelligence and surveillance that have enhanced the military’s ability to conduct the night raids, which now average 300 a month, NATO and Afghan officials said. Hundreds of people have been killed and thousands detained in the raids over the past 18 months, they said.
There is no doubt that the raids have been devastating to the Taliban insurgency. Afghan officials and community elders in almost every frontline province say that known Taliban commanders and even whole groups of fighters have been killed or captured, and that the raids have forced the Taliban to operate in smaller cells and have shrunk their capacity.
Military officials say the campaign has disrupted whole insurgent networks in rural districts and along infiltration routes, thereby reducing large-scale attacks in the cities.
“Those night raids have broken the back of the Taliban,” said Abdul Satar Mirzokhel, deputy governor of Helmand Province for three years until this spring. Gen. David H. Petraeus, the commander of coalition forces in Afghanistan, has defended the raids in sometimes heated exchanges with Mr. Karzai. In May, apparently in recognition of the anger the raids had provoked, General Petraeus ordered reviews of all tactical guidance for coalition troops and the causes of civilian casualties, and later of the conduct of night operations.
If anything, the military’s dependence on the night raids, which use relatively small teams of Special Forces, may only increase as the United States reduces its troops over the next three years.
Accounts of the raids from the military and Afghan civilians often differ widely. In one example, family members and an Afghan investigator said that two clerics were among eight civilians killed in a raid last November by American Special Operations forces in Mian, a village in a remote district of the southern province of Kandahar.
Lt. Cmdr. Ron Flesvig, a spokesman for the International Security Assistance Force, confirmed the raid and that eight people had been killed. He forwarded comments from the Special Operations public affairs office, dismissing the allegations as “unfounded and without merit.”
Military officials say that they get their target 80 percent of the time, and that less than 1 percent of the raids lead to civilian casualties. Any investigations by the military into the raids are not made public.
The United Nations examined a number of night raids from 2010 in four districts in Kandahar, where the insurgency was intense. Elders and local Afghans said the raids were generally precise and caused fewer civilian casualties than before, according to Georgette Gagnon, director of the human rights unit of the United Nations mission in Afghanistan.

Gaddafi troops reverse Libyan rebel advance

TRIPOLI (Reuters) – Muammar Gaddafi's better armed and organized troops reversed the westward charge of rebels and world powers meeting in London piled pressure on the Libyan leader to end his 41-year rule.
British Prime Minister David Cameron, opening the London conference, accused Libyan troops of "murderous attacks," while U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said military strikes would press on until Gaddafi loyalists ceased violence.
"All of us must continue to increase the pressure on and deepen the isolation of the Gaddafi regime through other means as well," Clinton said after the London talks finished.
"This includes a unified front of political and diplomatic pressure that makes clear to Gaddafi that he must go," she said.
The United States is scaling back to a "supporting role" to let NATO take full command from U.S. forces on Wednesday, but air strikes by U.S., French and British planes remain key to smashing Gaddafi's armor and facilitating rebel advances.
It took five days of allied air strikes to pulverize Libyan government tanks around the town of Ajdabiyah before Gaddafi's troops fled and the rebels rushed in and began their 300-km (200-mile), two-day dash across the desert to within 80 km (50 miles) of the Gaddafi loyalist stronghold of Sirte.
But the rebel pick-up truck cavalcade was first ambushed, then outflanked by Gaddafi troops. The advance stopped and government forces retook the small town of Nawfaliyah, 120 km (75 miles) east of Sirte.
"The Gaddafi guys hit us with Grads (rockets) and they came round our flanks," Ashraf Mohammed, a 28-year-old rebel wearing a bandolier of bullets, told a Reuters reporter at the front.
The sporadic thud of heavy weapons could be heard as dozens of civilian cars sped eastwards away from the fight.
Later, a hail of machinegun and rocket fire hit rebel positions. As the onslaught began, rebels leapt behind sand dunes to fire back. After a few minutes they gave up, jumped into their pick-up trucks and sped off back toward the town of Bin Jawad. Shells landed near the road as they retreated.
A rebel spokeswoman in the main rebel stronghold of Benghazi said that the front line was now just west of Bin Jawad, 25 km (15 miles) east of Nawfaliyah.
REBELS ON THE RUN
Without air strikes it appears the rebels are not able to make advances or even hold ground.
Reports that some Nawfaliyah residents had fought alongside government troops are an ominous sign for world powers hoping for a swift end to Gaddafi's rule.
Britain said the international partners meeting in London agreed to continue their military mission until Gaddafi complied with all terms of a U.N. resolution to protect civilians.
They also agreed to set up a contact group, including Arab states, to give political guidance for the response to the war and coordinate long-term support to Libya. The Gulf Arab state of Qatar agreed to convene a first meeting as soon as possible.
Gaddafi accused Western powers of massacres of Libyan civilians in alliance with rebels he said were al Qaeda members.
"Stop your brutal and unjust attack on our country ... Hundreds of Libyans are being killed because of this bombardment. Massacres are being mercilessly committed against the Libyan people," he said in a letter to world leaders.
"We are a people united behind the leadership of the revolution, facing the terrorism of al Qaeda on the one hand and on the other hand terrorism by NATO, which now directly supports al Qaeda," Libya's official news agency quoted him as saying.
The rebels deny any al Qaeda links and on Tuesday promised free and fair elections if Gaddafi is forced from power.
Admiral James Stavridis, head of U.S. European Command, told the U.S. Senate there was no indication of any "significant al Qaeda presence or any other terrorist presence."
Both Britain and Italy suggested Gaddafi might be allowed to go into exile to bring a quick end to the six-week civil war, but the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice said there was no evidence the Libyan leader was prepared to leave.
NO REGIME CHANGE MISSION
Clinton met the opposition Libyan National Council envoy Mahmoud Jebril before the London talks. A senior U.S. official said the two could discuss releasing $33 billion in frozen Libyan assets to the opposition.
Clinton said coalition military strikes would continue until Gaddafi fully complies with U.N. demands to cease violence against civilians and pull forces out of occupied cities.
"All of us must continue to increase the pressure on and deepen the isolation of the Gaddafi regime through other means as well," Clinton told the London conference.
"This includes a unified front of political and diplomatic pressure that makes clear to Gaddafi that he must go."
U.S. President Barack Obama once again ruled out sending ground troops to Libya or directly bringing about regime change by toppling Gaddafi.
"To be blunt, we went down that road in Iraq," Obama said in a televised address before the conference.
British Foreign Secretary William Hague said the London conference had not discussed arming the rebels, but U.S. officials were not ruling it out, believing it to be permitted by U.N. Security Council Resolution 1973 calling for the protection of Libyan civilians from Gaddafi's forces.
"We have not made that decision, but we've not certainly ruled that out," Rice told CBS's "The Early Show." An Italian diplomatic source said it would require a new U.N. resolution.
Rice said the United States would maintain financial and diplomatic pressure on Libya until Gaddafi leaves.
In western Libya, rebels and forces loyal to Gaddafi both claimed control over parts of Misrata, Libya's third city which has been besieged by government forces for more than a month.
Libyan state television said thousands of people were taking part in a march in support of Gaddafi in Misrata, which it said had been "cleansed of armed terrorist gangs." It was the third time the channel said Misrata had been recaptured from rebels.
A rebel spokesman said Gaddafi forces launched another attempt to seize control of Misrata in the city
Government troops "tried an hour ago to get into the town through the eastern gate. The youths are trying to push them back. Fighting is still taking place now. Random bombardment is continuing," the spokesman, called Sami, told Reuters by telephone from the city. "Eight civilians were killed and several others wounded last night."
"The humanitarian situation is catastrophic. There is a shortage of food and medicine. The hospital is no longer able to deal with the situation," the rebel spokesman said.
"We call for urgent help to protect civilians and improve the humanitarian situation."
(Additional reporting by Angus MacSwan, Alexander Dziadosz, Edmund Blair, Maria Golovnina, Michael Georgy, Ibon Villelabeitia, Lamine Chikhi, Hamid Ould Ahmed, Marie-Louise Gumuchian, Andrew Quinn and David Brunnstrom; Writing by Jon Hemming and Kevin Liffey; Editing by Peter Millership)

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