From: William Gladys <william.gladys@tiscali.co.uk>
Date: Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 10:20 PM
Subject: Fw: IS THIS WHAT IS CALLED NO FLY ZONE? '114 Libyans killed in US-led strikes'
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'114 Libyans killed in US-led strikes'
Sat Mar 26, 2011 9:55AM
A Libyan mourner at the grave of an opposition force killed in the eastern city of Ajdabiya.
Libya says at least 114 people, including several civilians, have been killed and 445 others injured in a week-long campaign of US-led military airstrikes in the oil-rich country.
"From March 20 to March 23, the attacks have killed 114 people and injured 445 people," the Libyan State TV quoted Libyan Health Minister Khaled Omar as saying at a press conference in Tripoli on Saturday.
According to government figures, 104 people were killed in the capital Tripoli -- the city of 2 million that is most firmly in Gaddafi's grip and some other suburbs -- while another 10 civilians lost their lives in Sirte, the hometown of the Libyan strongman.
Meanwhile, on the eight day of the US-led military operations on Saturday, the British, French and US warplanes hit civilian and military sites in Tripoli and Zliten. Several large explosions were heard in Tripoli.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev told his US counterpart Barack Obama on Thursday that preventing deaths of civilians in Libya should be the overriding priority for the Western forces participating in the Libya war.
The situation in Libya's third-largest city, Misrata, which is some 210 km (130 miles) east of Tripoli and has a population of more than half a million, is much worse than the other areas.
On Thursday, the Western alliance's fighter jets shelled targets in southern Libya, but failed to staunch the flow of Libyan regime tanks re-entering the city, whose main hospital was reportedly under heavy siege by armor and pro-Gaddafi snipers.
Medics say at least 109 people have been killed and injured in the northwestern city of Misrata during a week of clashes between forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi and opposition fighters.
UNHCR says as of March 23, some 351,600 people had fled Libya for fear of violence, and around 1,500 to 2,000 make their way to Egypt each day.
According to US military officials, more than 350 aircraft are participating in the US-led campaign of military airstrikes against Libya to protect civilians from Libyan regime's attacks.
Apart from the United States, twelve countries from the European Union are taking part in Operation Odyssey Dawn, which began on March 19 after the UN Security Council imposed a no-fly zone over Libya to "protect civilians" from Gaddafi's attacks.
The rising civilian death toll in Libya has set off a frenzy of speculations about the real motive behind the war in the oil-rich country, with many analysts saying that under the guise of protecting civilians, as enshrined in the UN Security Council resolution 1973, Washington and its Western allies are basically after the North African country's vast oil reserves.
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