U.S. seeking asylum country for Gaddafi
The troops of the Libyan dictator Muammar al-Gaddafi to give far. On Sunday (04/17/2011) they have again the coastal town of Misrata taken under fire. Several people were reportedly killed. Rebels told the television station Al-Jazeera and many injured. Misrata is the only bastion of the rebels in the west of the country and of Gadhafi troops encircled.
The Western community now fears that the fighting could continue for some time. Since weeks, she fights against the NATO-led troops Gaddafi. More than 140 NATO aircraft are currently flying missions per day. The Allies gradually go from the precision munitions, reported the Washington Post on Saturday. The Gaddafi regime, however, is said to have used internationally outlawed cluster bombs. These allegations of human rights organization Human Rights Watch. The Libyan leadership denies the use of these bombs.
Gaddafi is to get out of Libya
As aggravating the situation in Libya increasingly seek above all the United States to a different and more peaceful solution to the crisis. The New York Times now reports that the US-led search for a country of asylum for Gaddafi. They focus on countries in Africa. "The Libyans themselves are responsible for regime change, not us", quoted the newspaper a senior U.S. official. "We're just trying to organize a peaceful way out, if there is an opportunity."
Gaddafi Libya itself will not leave. Since he also threatened proceedings before the International Criminal Court in The Hague, writes the newspaper, one had to find a country of exile, which the Court had not accepted the contract. About half of the 53 African countries had met this condition and many of them under Gaddafi still hold good relations.
The prosecutor in The Hague accuse the Libyan authorities to be responsible for the attack on an aircraft. The machine of the U.S. airline Pan Am collapsed in 1988 over Lockerbie, Scotland, 270 people were killed. In addition, Gaddafi has responsibility in the Hague for atrocities in his own country.
No quick end
But still, the Libyan authorities have full control over his troops and followers. Military rule is a stalemate between him and the rebels, supported by NATO, said the head of the Federal Intelligence Service (BND), Ernst Uhlau, the "Hamburger Abendblatt. "The area around Tripoli, Gaddafi is therefore the zone of influence, population and tribal faster than the east, where the rebels have the upper hand," said Uhlau.
The French also assume that the fighting could still drag on long. "There is a risk that this war continues," said French Defence Minister Gerard Longuet of the newspaper Le Parisien.
Author: Nicole shear Shun (dpa, rtr, DAPD)
Editor: Dennis Stute
Editor: Dennis Stute
