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 Then you are withdrawn to allow Nato to bomb the positions of the militia of rais.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 ".

Gaddafi, the last sighting: "Niger" Agreement for the taking of Bani Walid

A large convoy of about 200 armored Libyans arrived to Agadez, in Niger, 750 kilometres north east of the capital Niamey, escorted by the military. The French military sources claim and Niger. The convoy includes officers and soldiers of the battalions stationed in the South of Libya that in all probability have entered Niger from Algeria.

Immediately spread the rumor, reported by French source, that the deposed dictator Muammar al-Gaddafi may soon join those troops together with his son Saif al-Islam, or that the two are already hidden on a vehicle of the convoy — then in neighboring Burkina Faso, which has offered asylum to Gaddafi and his clan.

Yesterday several people of the circle of rais had come to Agadez. Among them the head of security of staff, Colonel Mansour Daw. The Arabic newspaper al-Sharq al-Awsat writes that several witnesses had seen the Colonel move from Al JUFRAH district, South of Sirte, where is the command of the troops who are still faithful to the border with Niger. Meanwhile spokesman Colonel Moussa Ibrahim, has ensured that Gaddafi "is in excellent health and is organizing the defense of Libya".

The country, however, is almost totally in the hands of rebels. These have reached an agreement with the representatives of the gheddafiane militia to enter without a fight in Bani Walid, one of the last city that were still in the hands of brigades of Colonel. The al-Jazeera reported, citing sources of insurgents, according to which in the next few hours the troops of the National Council of transition will take control of the city.

Bani Walid is a stronghold of the powerful Warfalla tribe that has about a million people and is remained faithful until the very last to Muammar al-Gaddafi. The rebels are expected to enter the city as soon as the agreement will be formalized, probably around noon. Bani Walid, located 150 km south of Tripoli, had refused the surrender, so that for days he feared a new bloody clash. The agreement, according to al Jazeera, has been reached in the middle of the night, after men closer to Rais had abandoned the city. "We explained to the chiefs that there will be sold in town and that our task will be to ensure security," he assured Abdullah Kanshil, head of the delegation that negotiated with chieftains.

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.