Today there was the prayer for the end of ramadan in the main square of Tripoli thronged by thousands of faithful. The imam, in his sermon, he evoked the "martyrs" of the Libyan uprising. The prayer was held in piazza dei Martiri (the old Green square) in a climate of tension for fear of attacks by loyalists of the Colonel. In the afternoon, a car bomb explosion in Tripoli killed four rebels. According to some it would be an attack organized by some militiamen pro-Gaddafi. But the insurgents denied this reconstruction and speak to a car exploded due to a gunshot shots fired to celebrate Eid al-Fitr, the feast ending Ramadan.
The Libyan national Council of transition (Cnt) rejected the idea of deploying any kind of military Force or international observers: said UN Special Envoy for the rebuilding of Libya Ian Martin, after having attended a closed-door meeting of the Security Council. "We do not currently expect that military observers are required" by the new Libyan leadership, said Martin, adding: "it's very clear that the Libyans want to avoid any kind of military deployment, the United Nations or other". Yesterday, the President of the Cnt, Mustafa Abdel Jalil said that Libya did not need help from outside to maintain security. However, continued Martin, the Cnt is "interested in receiving assistance" to create a police force. The forces of liberation by the dictatorship have also announced that within two weeks to complete the transfer of the Transitional National Council from Benghazi to Tripoli. The announced Abderazay Salem, representative of the Cnt Yefrin region. On the political front the document drawn up by the rebels Announces elections within 18 months, with the monitoring of the UN. In the draft Declaration 14 pages of ' Constitutional ' developed by insurgents and provided an interim Government tasked to manage the transition up to the election of an Assembly of 200 members (Conference National), which replaces the Cnt and will have the task of drafting the new Constitution, to be submitted to referendum. But what kind of Country will be constitutional? In this document we talk of a "democratic and independent Libya", based on party pluralism "and" in which the Sharia, Islamic law, "it is the main source of law."
Nato has announced that it will continue to patrol the skies of Libya to enforce the No Fly Zone (taken with resolution 1973) also cease once the hostilities between the rebels and the last pockets of resistance. It is for the moment only a hypothesis, formulated by the Alliance's military staff and under consideration of the ambassadors of the Member States. Any eventual initiative, however, will take place under the auspices of the UN, which will almost certainly be entrusted with the management of the transition Libyan. Anonymous sources also reveal that the allies would agree on one point: no sending ground troops. If anything, a logistic support to a future UN mission, with naval or air bridges.
Meanwhile, rumors continue that Saadi Gaddafi, the third of eight children of Colonel Muammar al-Gaddafi, on the verge of surrender. The assured Abdelhakim Belhaj, a member of the military leadership of the national transition Council (Cnt), the satellite television al-Jazeera. According to the tale of Belhaj, Saadi, known in Italy for his claim, the player would call on the phone, that he was ready to surrender and surrender to the Cnt. In particular, the son of Colonel would have expressed the wish not to leave Libya and to negotiate the surrender. Second Belhaj, also many other members of the regime would be ready to surrender and the Cnt would ensure their treatment according to international law. The rebels also know many of their hiding places and clues on the place where Qadhafi, for which, however, exclude the hypothesis of a surrender.
The United Kingdom had the go-ahead of the Un sanctions Committee to unfreeze 1.86 billion Libyan dinars (1.6 billion dollars) to be used for "helping to provide urgent humanitarian aid, restore confidence in the banking sector, paying salaries of public sector employees and liquidity on the market." This was announced by the British Foreign Secretary William Hague in late evening ieriI. ll money issue, printed in the United Kingdom, had been frozen following the adoption of UN sanctions against the regime of Muammar al-Gaddafi. After the decision was taken following "substantial progress in recent days," added Hague, quoted by the Bbc.
The Spanish premier Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero announced that Madrid is ready to unlock, always "under UN auspices," the Libyan assets in the country.
In the last 24 hours, hundreds of tuareg rebels, accused of being mercenaries in the pay of Gadaffi, are crossing the border with Libya to repair in Algeria.
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.