Libya, siege at Bani Walid rebels: "we know where's the raìs"

At first light of dawn today, the rebels had announced: "In a few hours we will enter in Bani Walid". But it didn't go well.

During the late afternoon the insurgent radio "Lybia Hurra" (which means Libya frees) had announced the capture of the city, but the news was later denied. In the first place by two journalists, a Reuters correspondent who is on the front line, about 60 km north of the city and one of the France Press: both have stated that negotiations between the rebels and tribal leaders of beni Walid are still ongoing. In the evening the National Transitional Council has even made it known that "the negotiations with the leaders of the tribe of Bani Walid Warfalla have failed and did not resume. The ultimatum fixed yesterday ended this morning at 10 Italian time.

The war, in any case, you will not be finished until you find Muammar Gaddafi. And if until yesterday the suspicion was that the raìs was in town to the South East of Tripoli, today that instead of him there is no track insurgents do however know to know the place where you would find the Colonel. He said, according to the satellite channel Al-Jazira, the military leader of the insurgents in Tripoli, Abdul Hakim Belhaj, but has added other details. The rebels, as reported by the Bbc, are also sure that one of the sons of rais, Khamis Al-Gaddafi, died last month and is buried in Bani Walid.

In their advance, meanwhile, fighters of the Cnt are carrying out several mass arrests against people, mainly from Chad, Sudan, Niger and Mali, accused of being mercenaries in the pay of the regime. And here is the warning of Human Rights Watch, which asked the Cnt to release those who are detained only in the colour of their skin.

Meanwhile, the UN, to the mouth of the Special Envoy for the rebuilding of Libya Ian Martin, the new rulers to start as soon as the electoral process in the country. Martin claimed it was also "concerned" for the amount of weapons circulating in the country and called for the formation of a "public security authorities."

But the internal situation in Libya is anything but quiet. And there are already those who accuse the Cnt to be composed of former supporters of dictator. It does, for example, the fundamentalist military commander of Benghazi, Ismail al-Salabi, who leads a force of about 3 thousand men and that those who are part of the Committee "are all members of the old regime" and thus should "resign everyone from the top of the pyramid at the base." Al-Salabi fought in Afghanistan in the past but denies any links with fundamentalist groups out of Libya, as the Taliban or Al Qaida. "There are lay people who have their own agenda and as extremists who would like to exclude us Wednesday by the international community and cause a division that would be useful only to the tyrant", he added.