Gaddafi's army will kill half a million, warn Libyan rebels

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Gaddafi's army will kill half a million, warn Libyan rebels

Rebels flee Ras Lanuf and call on UN to impose no-fly zone as Gaddafi's forces recapture strategically important towns



Libyan rebels have called on UN to impose a no-fly zone. Photograph: Patrick Baz/Getty


Chris McGreal in Benghazi
guardian.co.uk, Saturday 12 March 2011 18.14 GMT


Muammar Gaddafi's army won control of a strategic rebel-held Libyan town and laid siege to another as the revolutionary administration in Benghazi again appealed for foreign military help to prevent what it said would be the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people if the insurgents were to lose.

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The head of Libya's revolutionary council, Mustafa Abdel Jalil, claimed that if Gaddafi's forces were to reach the country's second-largest city it would result in "the death of half a million" people.

The Arab League, meeting in Cairo, called on the UN security council to impose a no fly-zone on Libya as Gaddafi's forces also began to move against Misrata, a city of 300,000 people about 125 miles from Tripoli. Misrata is the only town in the west of the country still under the control of the insurgents after their defeat in a vicious battle for Zawiya. The rebels said that Misrata was now surrounded by Gaddafi's forces, which included tanks.

"We are bracing for a massacre," Mohamad Ahmed, a rebel fighter in the city, said. "We know it will happen and Misrata will be like Zawiya, but we believe in God. We do not have the capabilities to fight Gaddafi and his forces. They have tanks and heavy weapons and we have our belief and trust in God.


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The rebel fighter quoted, Mohamad Ahmed, added:

"The fighters here and the people of Misrata hold the international community responsible for the fall of Zawiya and for all the deaths that happened. Gaddafi is responsible, but they are partners in crime."

[former9thward]

1. They are trying to drag us into another protracted land war. This time in Africa.

The Arab League has plenty of member states with armies that aren't doing anything. Let them deal with the issue.

[KansDem]

2. Well, then kill Gaddafi

Aren't there any CIA death squads around? We had plenty of them for Central and South America!

Turn some Xe goons on him...

[Thunderstruck]

5. The would have to get Saif too.

[Bosonic]

3. Super sky friend

They have tanks and heavy weapons and we have our belief and trust in God ... The fighters here and the people of Misrata hold the international community responsible for the fall of Zawiya and for all the deaths that happened. Gaddafi is responsible, but they are partners in crime.

So God gets all the props, but none of the blame ?!?

[DavidDvorkin]

4. As always.

[Thunderstruck]

6. Welcome to DU! =^)

[bobbolink]

7. Oh, give it a rest!

These people are fighting for their very lives... could you please take your hatred of religion elsewhere, just for once?