Fresh off of reports that they had secured the town of Zawiya, not far from Libya’s capital of Tripoli, the rebel fighters have claimed another gain in the southern town on Garyan. Since both are on roads leading to Tripoli, the rebels declared the city “encircled.”
Regime forces confirmed that rebels were in Garyan, but insisted that it was a relatively small number and that they would soon be driven out. NATO, likewise, termed the rebel’s hold on Zawiya tenuous, at best.
Which has been the story of this civil war. One side or the other seems able to take over periphery towns of some strategic value from their opponent, but they never seem able to hold it for more than a few days, before a counter-offensive returns the status quo and then stalls itself. It is this endless series of failed offensives that has both sides reportedly looking for a deal in Tunisia talks.
Rebel rhetoric about encircling Tripoli seems aimed primarily at fueling a popular uprising in the capital, since indications are their forces nearby are far too small to actually take the city. This leaves the war once again resting on the assumption that something external is going to happen to rescue to situation and break the stalemate, but those events near seem to happen.
The UN under Ban Ki Moon has totally come off the rails. There was a time when the UN would go out of its way to defuse conflicts and get the sides to talk peacefully.
With Libya Ban ki moon despite his contradictory rhetoric is encouraging more fighting and bloodshed.
Ban Ki Boon is the worst UN Secy ever. Greatest mystery how he obtained another term.
No mystery, he got another term because he is a lackey of the US and the other NATO countries.
I am also gob-smacked by his behaviour over Libya. In fact ,it is completely disgraceful as is the UN organisation itself.
He is gutless and not worthy of his position as UN Secretary.
Rebels trying to sound tough so the 'dominoes will fall'. Ain't gonna happen.
As we say in the South, "I ain't got a dog in that fight" so personally I don't care who prevails. What I DO care about are the innocent Libyan civilians caught in the crossfire of this ill-conceived and stupidly planned 'rebellion', as well as the murderous response of the government forces and its mercenaries. Neither side has any moral high ground whatsoever, and it's Yusuf the Plumber and his family who is suffering for it. Shame on the rebels for not having a clue what they were doing when they decided to wreck the country, and shame on Gadhafi for being so heavy-handed in his response. And shame on the West (I'm looking at YOU, Obama) for taking advantage of the unrest and making a bad situation even worse.
Libya just another country to be 'interventioned' and set back decades.. seems like the modern policy of the west towards the middle east is to launch some military operation every time there are crucial events in Israel. Guess that's what happens when Israel runs the middle east policy in USA
look how many they need to kill:
LIBYA: From 17.06 – 19.07.11, 5 Million demonstrated against NATO and its rebels = 80 percent of libyans – that is why NATO does not accept Libyan offer of democratic elections supervised by UN and AU ! green Pro-Gadddafi demonstrations: Tripolis: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0XsF03fNM4 watch?v=1-UauWzcAkg watch?v=q4o2O2zePL4 watch?v=0p4MlvFGbao&NR=1 watch?v=MO_2LoKkajM watch?v=WCKM-A9Cryc watch?v=2kksYhNYuQs watch?v=XB97HznH4n4 watch?v=CEidZcZJ6AI watch?v=lx0YJz1ukYs watch?v=aX1DijkPgZ0&NR=1