Gaddafi’s troops surrounded in Misrata

After bloody fights, at the airport from Misrata, a city which has been besieged for over two months by governmental forces, Libyan rebels have surrounded Muammar Gaddafi’s troops.

According to France Press, only the south of the airport can be used by Gaddafi’s troops to get away.

Those who saw the struggle asserted that the thousands of air attacks launched by NATO on Libya made rebels to strengthen their positions and to extend their control over the Libyan territory.

These days, NATO has been intensifying bombing in Tripoli and has also ensured that their target is not Gaddafi but the military settlements.

The French Foreign Minister claimed that he has no information about the Libyan leader taking into account that Libyan television has not been broadcasting images with Gaddafi since ten days.

The European Union announced that, soon, it would open an office in Benghazi; moreover, this week the Libyan rebel leader, Mahmud Jibril, is going to Washington.

According to NATO’s Deputy Spokesman, Carmen Romero, ending NATO’s operations in Libya ‘depends on Gaddafi’s regime’ and allies’ mission will be accomplished when all attacks and threats to civilians have stopped, when all Gaddafi’s regime troops have returned to their base and people have been guaranteed the access to humanitarian aid.

Since then, NATO keeps on reinforcing pressure on Gaddafi’s regime and says that he will go on with the campaign in Libya as long as civilians are threatened.

Translated by: Cristina Anamaria Maricescu
MA Student, MTTLC, Bucharest University