Libya still clashes in Bani Walid rebels prepare for the onslaught of Sirte

Clashes between insurgents and troops of Muammar al-Gaddafi in the conquering of Bani Walid and Sirte. According to Cnt TV, Lybia anti-Gaddafi forces this morning attacked Bani Walid, going up to the city centre. Then you are withdrawn to allow Nato to bomb the positions of the militia of rais. An Envoy of Ansa reported fighting between the rebels and gheddafiani to about fifty kilometres from Sirte: loyalists are responding to the insurgents with a rain of missiles grad and mortar. According to hospital sources, there would be three dead.

Meanwhile there are riots and clashes also in other cities anti-gheddafiane and rivals between them in the South of Libya: twelve people have died and others were injured in clashes between fighters of Gharyane and Kikla and those of Al-Assabaa.

Yesterday the President of the Transitional National Council, Abdel Jalil, has returned to Tripoli for the first time since the beginning of the fighting. Received by a huge crowd and an audience of diplomats: the number two of the Cnt, the interim premier Mahmoud Jibril, and several other members, in addition to representatives of countries that have recognized the new rebel authorities. Including the Consul of Italy, Guido de Sanctis, which he called "extremely important" visit Jalil: "it was a move that had to do, so that even in Tripoli, the population could confirm to be satisfied with his leadership." The President will have the task of provisional write off divergences, increasingly, between the different factions of rebels ".