Col Muammar Gaddafi has devised a suicidal last ditch plan to blow up Tripoli if the capital falls as the dictator demands that his troops destroys territory they cannot hold.
Western officials believe Col Gaddafi is increasingly beleagured as his grip slips from power Photo: PA
and Andrew Osborn in Moscow
9:00PM BST 14 Jul 2011
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Mikhail Margelov, the Kremlin's special representative for Africa, said Libya's prime minister Baghdadi al-Mahmudi had revealed the plan. "The Libyan premier told me: if the rebels seize the city, we will cover it with missiles and blow it up," said Mr Margelov who was in Libya last month for talks with both the government and the rebels.
"I imagine that the Gaddafi regime does have such a suicidal plan," he added.
Lt Gen Charles Bouchard, Nato's top commander of Libya operations, said that the Gaddafi regime had ordered his troops to destroy infrastructure and facilities as they retreated. "I can report that the Gaddafi regime has given direction to its forces to destroy certain facilities as they withdraw back, such as fuel refineries and other aspects," he said.
However he said that order was causing some resentment among Gaddafi loyalists who resented the destruction of their country.
"Just because Gaddafi has given a direction does not mean that direction is being undertaken by his own troops" he said. "We've seen a fair bit of his troops, of his generals, surrendering, of his troops abandoning their posts."
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Western officials believe Col Gaddafi is increasingly beleagured as his grip slips from power. Rebels have made advances on the capital, seizing yesterday the village of Qawalish, which was recaptured by the government on Wednesday and successful pushing a counter-attack five miles close to the Gaddafi stronghold of Gharyan.
International sanctions have caused increasing hardship in Tripoli, forcing the regime to lodge an appeal to the UN this week to free up frozen funds for humanitarian supplies.
Turkey yesterday heralded a new diplomatic push for Gaddafi's resignation by revealing it would present a roadmap for a negotiated exit at an international meeting of 40 countries on Libya that will open in Istanbul today.
Despite abstaining during the key vote on Libya at the United Nations in March, the Kremlin has supported calls for Col Gaddafi's departure. Mr Margelov said the Kremlin hoped that "pragmatic parts"w of the regime would push Col Gaddafi out. He said: "It is quite possible to solve the situation without the colonel."
Mr Mahmudi, the prime minister, tore up Italy's huge oil concessions in Libya and said that ENI, the Italian operator that has invested £25 billion in the country, was "finished". The announcement is the first wholesale retaliation by the regime against countries that are involved in the Nato-led bombing campaign.
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scottishbrian
27 minutes ago
The announcement that he was to be indicted as a war criminal meant that he had to go on to the end like Hitler. I suspect that he will eventually take his own life unless someone else does the job for him.
Cezsar
Yesterday 11:35 PM Recommended by 1 person
Well I never: http://news.sky.com/skynews/Ho... <--NOTE: the reporter in the video is the most biased war mongering rebel supporter in the entire British msm, I've seen her reporting throughout this whole bloody episode. Which makes this video very interesting indeed.
wanderingone
Yesterday 11:34 PM Recommended by 1 person
Dear Colonel Gaddafi,
please don't feel that you have to blow up Tripoli as you leave -- I believe Mr. Cameron and his allies already have that process started.
I am grateful, though, that you seem to be in favour of the idea. I visited Tripoli eight years ago and thought, then, that blowing the place up would be an improvement.
All the best.
BJ
Yesterday 11:20 PM Recommended by 3 people
Please file this with the 'mass rape' and 'mercenary' stories.
This if for consumption of UK anti Ghadaffi readers who need something to cheer them up or at least keep them justifiably angry.
In other words...tosh.
Also note inadvertant example of IRONY...as nato passes 9000th air raid...much of it directed against Tripoli, wonder who's done most damage to the city? Report Recommend
snoekie
Yesterday 11:17 PM'
I very much hope that the Turks *diplomatic* efforts have some effect on this aggression against Libya.'
Are you out of your cotton pickin mind? He only listens to the little green worm in his head, and other peoples lives mean nothing to him.
Remind you of a former leader of ours?
peterbishop
Yesterday 11:13 PM Recommended by 4 people
This is the sort of black propaganda article that would normally appear in the Daily Mail, and most readers will see through it....neatly planted by those wishing to prolong this fiasco in north Africa. It was called psychops in the US in ww2.
Destroying buildings armaments and equipment which might be of use to your foe is standard military procedure and was common to axis and allied forces in WW2.
As for Colonel Gaddafis " grip on power weakening ", I can bet you he will still be there at the end of the year, and the Nato mission will be a failure.
_______ jlondon
Yesterday 11:15 PM Recommended by 1 person
It seems you have absolute confidence in Gaddafi and none in the combined position of western democracies, the UN and the Arab League.
What is your credibility test based on?
Richard Belsen
Yesterday 10:50 PM Recommended by 3 people
I still think Gaddafi can win it, despite all the propaganda and mis information put out on a weekly basis about his imminent defeat, death, capture, exile, injury (please delet as required).
Whatever you say his men in Brega, attacking Misrata and fighting all over Libya must be loyal, determined, skilled and resourceful to withstand months of NATO bombing and rebel attacks while having food shortages.
The rebels cannot have the skills required nor the didcipline to get a victory, and I think we may see them take catastrophic losses when they over extend into true Gaddafi terrtory - populated cities - where NATO will not be able to destroy the fire power that no doubt lies hidden in schools, houses, warehouses, public buildings and garages that can be brought into play for the decisive battles.
Victory will be Gaddafi's.
_______ jlondon
Yesterday 11:16 PM Recommended by 1 person
He cannot win, there is no chance of him beating the coalition of force set against him. It cannot happen, he will be defeated and gone, it is only how long that is unclear.
JerryFrey2010
Yesterday 10:41 PM Recommended by 1 person
Libya is another artificial country created through Italian colonialism. In order for a democratic form of government and free institutions to rise from the anti-Tripoli revolution, the educated class and youth yearning for a better way of life must eschew tribal tradition. These numerous power centers are unlikely to bow to the wave of change which was made possible because of modernity and NATO.If Libya remains a united territory, it’s likely that a strongman will emerge as leader while lurking in the shadows are the Islamists who can not be discounted. Until Europeans intervene on the ground or Gaddafi flees into exile, the military and political stalemate will continue.http://napoleonlive.info/polit...
quartz
Yesterday 10:41 PM
Brown's an evil looking bounder, but this one... wow!!
Simon_Cambs
Yesterday 10:40 PM Recommended by 1 person
Here is a report from within Libya:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...
ChrisClarkGold
Yesterday 10:16 PMRecommended by 6 people
All standard mad dictator in self denial stuff. I'm sure he has the warm support of the Tripoli citizens.
Saddam tried a scorched earth policy too, with the Kuwait oil wells. All he got was an appointment with the executioner.
CountMelancholy
Yesterday 10:16 PM Recommended by 7 people
What a ridiculous story. No wonder this paper gets nothing but ridicule.
BenShahak
Yesterday 09:18 PM Recommended by 2 people
And don't forget that the Israeli media has told us that Gaddafi is a Jew who secretly works for Israel.
_______ jlondon
Yesterday 11:17 PM
so what?
ryeatley
Yesterday 07:27 PM Recommended by 12 people
Lt Gen Charles Bouchard "said that the Gaddafi regime had ordered his troops to destroy infrastructure and facilities as they retreated", but then that "he said that order was causing some resentment among Gaddafi loyalists who resented the destruction of their country"??
So we're expected to believe that Gaddafi's lot don't like their "scorched earth" policy, but don't really mind that we and NATO are bombing them to bits?
"Western officials believe Col Gaddafi is increasingly beleagured as his grip slips from power"
I'd struggle to believe anything else, given that the NATO regieme wants only to get rid of Gaddafi, for its own reasons - and is bombing Libya to bits, and enabling a take-over by insurgents, terrorists, and sundry turncoats!
So, the Libyans have "torn up Italy's huge oil concessions in Libya" - honestly, would you continue to sell goods to the enemy
I very much hope that the Turks *diplomatic* efforts have some effect on this aggression against Libya.
_______ jlondon
Yesterday 11:21 PM Recommended by 1 person
The aggression against Libya is the shelling and machine-gunning of the civilian population by Gaddafi first and foremost. His military strategy is directing to maximising civilian casualties, the international coalitions strategy is aimed at minimising them.
Interesting to note that you ignor Gaddafi's role in the destruction of Libyan cities.
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Các anh chị có ý kiến, phê bình gì qua bài viết "Col Muammar Gaddafi's 'plan to blow up Tripoli'" và qua "18 comments" của đọc giả ?
Đây là "tin mới nóng hổi", các anh chị vào link dưới đây để coi hình dạng của những "trái mìn" trong video:
Libyan rebels find land mines during recapture of village in Western Mountains.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/africa/5288668/Libya-rejects-blow-up-Tripoli-claims
Các anh chị có nghĩ rằng độc tài Gadhafi "thật sự dự tính" sẽ cho "nổ tung Tripoli" trong trường hợp "không giữ được thành" cũng như không giữ được quyền lực ?
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