CIA agents have been deployed in Libya to establish contact with the rebels and direct airstrikes by international coalition forces, the New York Times reported, and ABC television reported that US President Barack Obama had authorized covert assistance to the rebels. According to the American New York Times on Wednesday, members The CIA has been present in Libya since a few weeks ago and is deployed in small groups, and their goal is to establish ties with Gaddafi's opponents and determine the targets of military operations. ABC television reported that Obama signed a memorandum authorizing covert actions in Libya in order to helped the rebels, but that this still does not include arming them. The White House did not respond to this information from the American media, but reiterated that it has not yet been decided whether the US will provide arms assistance to the Libyan rebels." I repeat what the president said on Tuesday: No decision has been made on arming the Libyan opposition or any other group in that country. We do not rule out that possibility, but we have not made a definitive decision about it yet," White House spokesman Jay Carney emphasized earlier in his statement.
Ban Ki-moon: The international community is united on the issue of Libya
The international community is united on the issue of Libya, said UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. "We are united. Two days ago we had a very successful meeting in London and the international community is united on the issue of Libya," Ban Ki-moon told Agence France-Presse press, during his visit to Nairobi. He also said that first Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi should stop military actions and then the international community will provide Libyans with humanitarian aid. Representatives of 40 countries gathered in London on Tuesday at a meeting of the Contact Group for Libya as the international community would adopt a strategy for the period after Gaddafi leaves power. The meeting was attended by representatives of NATO, the UN and 36 other countries. Of the 24 member countries of the Arab League, seven of them sent their representatives to the meeting in London. The African Union, which criticized the international community's decision to start a military intervention in Libya, did not attend the meeting in the British capital.
Libya's foreign minister defected, but won't get immunity
Libyan Minister of Foreign Affairs Musa Kusa je in the UK i "not anymore he wants" to cooperate with the regime of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, British officials announced, as reported by the BBC.
He is flew in iz Tunisia on an extraordinary flight and upon arrival he was interrogated for several hours by the British services.
"He arrived here of his own free will, and told us he had resigned," said a UK Foreign Office spokesman.
Musa Kusa is considered one of the closest associates of Muammar Gaddafi, and before becoming the head of diplomacy, he was the head of the intelligence service for many years (1994-2009).
His defection comes as rebels retreat from their strongholds on the east coast, under attack from Gaddafi's regime forces.
The British foreign minister stated that Kusa will not receive immunity from either British or international justice.
"The British judiciary and international justice will not grant Musa Qussa immunity. He is currently willingly talking to British officials," Hague said in London. He assessed that Qussas' resignation shows that the Gaddafi regime, which has already suffered significant personnel losses, is "divided, that he is under pressure and that he is collapsing." Gaddafi should ask himself who will leave him next," Hague added. he did not defect. Haig repeated today that Kusa came to Britain voluntarily yesterday, and that he said he would resign. Haig emphasized that Gaddafi's regime has lost all legitimacy and once again called on close associates of the Libyan leader to leave him and get involved. for a better future of Libya.
Victims of "allegedly humanitarian bombing"
A Catholic priest at a service in Tripoli condemned the military attacks of the international coalition in which, as he stated, there are "dozens of civilian victims" in several parts of the Libyan capital.
"The situation in Tripoli is getting worse every day," the priest said, adding that fuel shortages are increasing.
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