Libia Fresh News • NO - Fly Zone Malta nega uso basi militari ma concede transito nel suo spazio aereo Canada invia Aerei militari e staff di supporto 19 Mar 2011

Libia Fresh News • NO - Fly Zone Malta nega uso basi militari ma concede transito nel suo spazio aereo Canada invia Aerei militari e staff di supporto 19 Mar 2011

Malta non permette alla forza multinazionale impegnata nell'istituzione della no-fly zone sulla Libia di usare il suo territorio come base militare, ma permette il transito nel suo spazio aereo degli aerei dei Paesi impegnati.

Lo ha dichiarato il premier Lawrence Gonzi, spiegando che nonostante la risoluzione dell'Onu per la no-fly zone sulla Libia - MALTA - in quanto Paese neutrale, non permette che il suo territorio venga usato come base militare.

Intanto, (Eurocontrol) Agenzia Europea per il controllo del Traffico Aereo ha annunciato di aver proibito tutti i voli civili verso la Libia, sottolineando che le Autorità Libiche hanno smentito di aver chiuso il loro spazio aereo.

• Tutti e 39 i Paesi membri di Eurocontrol ci hanno chiesto di proibire tutti i voli sopra e verso la Libia - ha indicato all’agenzia France Presse una portavoce dell’Agenzia Europea.

Respingiamo tutti i piani di volo che richiedano il sorvolo della Libia o che prevedano l’ingresso nello spazio aereo libico ha aggiunto.

Non risulta invece confermata la notizia, sempre diffusa in mattinata da Eurocontrol, sulla decisione dell’Autorità Libica dell’Aviazione civile di Tripoli di chiudere lo spazio aereo libico.

Dopo contatti diretti con la capitale libica, - le Autorità Libiche ci hanno informato che lo spazio aereo è aperto - ha spiegato la portavoce.

La Libia dice che il suo spazio aereo non è chiuso, per le Autorità Libiche è aperto - ha insistito la portavoce.

Stamani Sabato 19 Mar 2011 - nonostante l'insistenza del governo libico di non aver violato il cessate il fuoco la roccaforte dell'opposizione di Bengasi è stata attaccata Un jet è andato giù in fiamme al di fuori della città orientale di Bengasi, reti TV arabe hanno mostrato il video di un jet colpito schiantarsi al suolo, creando un enorme pennacchio di fumo nero dopo l'impatto. I ribelli di Bengasi hanno detto di aver abbattuto il Jet dei militari di Gheddafi.

- Last News 19 Mar 2011 • Basi Militari Sicilia Centro dell’ Operazione no-fly zone •
Il primo Ministro Britannico David Cameron ha detto al Parlamento britannico Venerdì 18 Mar che avrebbe inviato i caccia Typhoon e Tornado dalle basi mediterranee per lanciare attacchi contro la Libia nelle prossime ore.

La TV francese ha mostrato i caccia inglesi e oggi partenza per le basi in Sicilia (Sigonella e Trapani)
La Francia ha gli aerei di stanza nel sud del Paese e nell'isola di Corsica.


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- Last News 19 Mar 2011 • Leaders from the Arab world, Africa, the United States and other Western powers were holding urgent talks in Paris on Saturday over possible military action after the Libyan government, apparently hoping to outflank the effort, declared the cease-fire.

Analysts said the summit is meant to give symbolic approval for attacks to begin on Gadhafi.

U.S. officials, speaking after a closed-door briefing in Congress, said the attempt to ground Gadhafi's air force could begin by Sunday 20 Mar or Monday 21 with the use of jet fighters, bombers and surveillance aircraft.

• British Prime Minister David Cameron told the British Parliament on Friday that he would send Typhoon and Tornado fighter jets to bases where attacks could be launched against Libya "in the coming hours."

• French television showed British fighter jets leaving Saturday morning for bases in Sicily.

• France has planes stationed in the country's south and on the island of Corsica.


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UN approves no-fly zone over Libya; Canada to send fighter jets, support staff

TRIPOLI - Libya declared an immediate cease-fire Friday 18 Mar 2011, trying to fend off international military intervention after the U.N. authorized a no-fly zone and "all necessary measures" to prevent the regime from striking its own people.

The cease-fire announcement by the Libyan foreign minister followed a fierce government attack on Misrata, the last rebel-held city in the western half of the country.

Meanwhile, a rebel spokesman said Moammar Gadhafi's forces were still shelling two cities.
Mustafa Gheriani said the attacks continued well past the announcement.

The U.N. Security Council resolution, which was passed late Thursday after weeks of deliberation, set the stage for airstrikes, a no-fly zone and other military measures short of a ground invasion.

Britain announced that it would send fighter jets, Italy offered the use of its bases, and France was making plans to deploy planes.

The U.S. had yet to announce its role. NATO also held an emergency meeting.

With the international Community mobilizing, Libyan Foreign Minister Moussa Koussa said the government would cease fire in line with the resolution, although he criticized the authorization of international military action, calling it a violation of Libya's sovereignty.

- The government is opening channels for true, serious dialogue with all parties," he said during a news conference in Tripoli, the capital. He took no questions.

In Washington, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the Usa must see 'action on the ground,' not just words from Libya on any cease-fire.

///////////// • The rebels, once confident, found themselves in danger of being crushed by an overpowering pro-Gadhafi force using rockets, artillery, tanks, warplanes.
That force has advanced along the Mediterranean coast in recent days, aiming to recapture the rebel-held eastern half of Libya.

////////////////////// • A large crowd in the Benghazi, the city where the uprising started on Feb. 15, watched the U.N. vote on an outdoor TV projection and burst into cheers, with green and red fireworks exploding overhead.

• In Tobruk, another eastern city, happy Libyans fired weapons in the Air to celebrate.

In an interview with Portuguese television broadcast just before the U.N. vote, Gadhafi pledged to respond harshly to U.N.-sponsored attacks. - If the world is crazy, he said, we will be crazy, too.

The Libyan government closed its airspace Friday, according to Europe's air traffic control agency, Eurocontrol.

Government tanks rolled into Misrata, 200 km southeast of Tripoli, early Friday, shelling houses, hospitals and a mosque for several hours before pulling back to the city's outskirts, witnesses said.
At least six people were killed, raising the total death toll in two days of fighting to nine, a local doctor said.

Misrata is the rebels' last western holdout after Gadhafi recaptured a string of other cities that fell to the opposition early. Its fall would leave the country largely divided, with the rebels bottled up in the east near the border with Egypt.

Gadhafi troops encircled the city of Ajdabiya, the first in the path of their march, but also had some troops positioned beyond it toward Benghazi, the second largest Libyan city, with a population of about 700,000.

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