The Libyan leader Gaddafi has gone mad!
Colonel Muammar Gaddafi has cons-attacked on Wednesday by sending troops and fighter jets to attack the east controlled by the insurgents. In a speech before a crowd of supporters, he pledged thousands of deaths in case of intervention of the Westerners in Libya.
Statement by the dictator Gaddafi
The “guide of the Libyan revolution” appeared in Tripoli during a ceremony marking the 34th anniversary of the establishment of the “power of the masses” in Libya. “We can not allow the Americans or the West to intervene in Libya.If they do, they should know they run into a hell and a pool of blood worse than Iraq or Afghanistan (…). We distribute millions of weapons and it will be another Vietnam, “he stressed.
Cons-offensive in eastern Libya
On the ground, the situation remained confused. The Libyan forces backed by tanks and heavy artillery, launched an offensive against-Brega, 800 miles east of Tripoli. In Benghazi, a stronghold of the insurgent movement, the Libyan National Council (NLC) of thirty members set up Sunday, has placed at its head the former justice minister Mohammad Mustafa Abdeljalil. He asked the UN to send planes to attack the bastions of “mercenaries” that African Gaddafi would use against his own people… The Council, however, expressed opposition to intervention of foreign forces land on Libyan soil. He cons by his willingness to send men into the west to force Gaddafi to give up a power he has held for 41 years.
There would be more than 6000 deaths in Libya since the start of the crackdown
On the humanitarian situation has reached a “crisis” at the border between Libya and Tunisia. A crowd stretched “for miles and miles” to leave Libya, according to UNHCR. According to the spokesman for the Libyan League for Human Rights, Ali Zeidan, violence related to the suppression of the uprising were 6000 deaths, including 3000 in the only city of Tripoli.
