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LIBYA’S CIVIL WAR could be ended by allowing Muammar Gaddafi to stay in the country if he relinquishes power, according to France’s foreign minister.
Gaddafi, the embattled leader who has been in power for over 40-years, insists he will neither step down nor flee the country. With the NATO-led air campaign against Gaddafi’s forces entering its fifth month and the fighting in a stalemate, the international community is seeking exit strategies.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy met in Paris on Wednesday with three rebel leaders from the western port city of Misrata who are seeking aid and arms to move toward Tripoli. Sarkozy announced no specific measures in response.
Foreign Minister Alain Juppe said France wants to keep “a very close link” with the rebels “to see how we can help.”
Asked whether Gaddafi could stay in Libya under house arrest, for example, Juppe said on LCI television Wednesday:
One of the hypotheses that is envisaged is that he stays in Libya, on one condition … that he clearly steps aside from Libya’s political life. This is what we are waiting for before launching a political process.
Juppe said last week that Gaddafi was “prepared to leave” power according to some reports but it has been difficult to establish how credible such reports may be.
The rebels initially insisted that Gaddafi leave the country, but some are not ruling out the possibility that he could stay in Libya if he gives up power. The two sides have been locked in a stalemate with the rebels unable to advance beyond pockets in the west despite a NATO air campaign against Gaddafi’s forces.
Rebel forces hold most of the east but have been unable to wrest the strategic oil town of Brega from Gaddafi’s forces.
Mohammed Idris, a doctor at the Ajdabiya hospital where the casualties were taken, said 27 rebels were killed and 83 others were wounded Tuesday in fighting for Brega. That raised the six day death toll to 53.
Libya’s government spokesman has put the rebel death toll closer to 500.
Rebel military leaders Ramadan Zarmouh and Ahmed Hachem and the Misrata representative of the opposition government, Souleiman Fortia, met with Sarkozy on Wednesday.
“Their message was the following: what we did to liberate our city, we can do it to move forward towards Tripoli,” said French philosopher Bernard Henri-Levy, who helped organize the meeting and has championed the Libyan rebel cause.
If they (the rebels) have the means, they just need a few days to reach the doors of Tripoli. They are expected in the three cities before Tripoli by experienced fighters who are just waiting for them. So a few days will be enough.
He said Sarkozy listened to them but did not say whether any aid or arms were pledged.
France has played a driving role in the NATO-led campaign of airstrikes, mandated by the UN to protect civilians from a crackdown by Gaddafi’s forces on an uprising against his rule, amid revolts this year around the Arab world.
Last week, more than 30 nations including the United States gave the Libyan rebels a boost by recognising their National Transitional Council as the country’s legitimate government, potentially freeing up billions of dollars in urgently needed cash.
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As the hurricane said to the coconut tree ” hang on to your nuts,this ain’t no ordinary bl0wj0b”
Okey dokey then it’s back to bed for me.
100 kph gusts are nothing new in Ireland, they will happen at least twenty times in any year.
It’s so sad when you grow up and the world loses all it’s wonder.
3 boys in this house it’s always windy !
Do they exist on a diet of baked beans and scrambled eggs?
Yellow warnings just mean normal weather in Ireland.
Ah Gemma it’s changed to Otange, stay inside. Well today i think every one in the Country was near Dundrum Rathfarnham it was chaotic driving in the car no parking spaces terrible.
I know people are going to answer me and say it’s near Christmas AND it’s black Friday Saturday and Sunday, i’m tired even writing this, roll on new year.
Orange not Otange
Barney did blow down a few wall panels in my back garden I have decided not to replace them until well into the new year as I think we are in for a lot more storms
Raining and windy in Ireland! Blow me down with a feather.,
It’s nearly Christmas! !!
with christmas coming up will that parasite Geldof write a song for the people of Syria ?
get all his tax dodgin buddies together and raise some money etc
Ah feck, flying into Dublin today. Might be bumpy.
Status Orange?
The Orange Order must be taking over.
Joking aside.
As I said before, there is nothing more spectacular than watching the irresistible force of the Atlantic Ocean throwing itself at the immovable object called the West of Ireland.
rained all night in Clare
Jaysus sake wha. That will be one to tell the grandchildren.
More crap weather, feck’s sake
I went for a walk today and loved it, windy, cold but fresh and dry…
Fishing boats taking shelter today in Dingle Ireland
https://goo.gl/ERMjT5
That’s a beautiful shot Dingle.
Cheers …
I think tomorrow with all the rain/wind it will be hard to get photos :(
The West gets it bad, everytime I went to Galway it pished rain. It was like winter in mid summer. Freezing cold damp place.
Oíche na Gaoithe Móire
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_of_the_Big_Wind
We had worse…
Get the CEOs of the FAI, IFA, Rehab, Siteserve, Nama, Irish Rail, AIB, BOI, Anglo, Leo Varadkar, HSE, Central Bank etc to sort out the weather. They have procedures, processes, a way forward, transparency, good team around them, etc etc Surely these miracle workers can stop a few gusts of wind for a few bob.
Its lovely here
Not half as nice as there.
It’s lovely in London.
I gone a bit nippy here in Orlando. It’s only 27c. But I’d swap it for the west coast of Clare any day.
Like a boss shaun
The pub it is then
Going snorkeling in the morning. Should be great altogether.
I Jeep picking up branches and twigs from my lawn in case I run over them and snap a belt on my mower in the Spring.Decided I. Ain’t gonna pick em up anymore, til the day before I now the grass now
Status Orange – is it marching season?
Hen party tonight die of a hangover for Sunday so now its crap weather good excuse to stay in bed!!!!
Now the grass now cracking wording
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Give yourself and loan and buy a shirt that fits.
Fast! My first Saturday off in months and I can’t even go outside
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