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NTC Chief Says Sirte, Bani Walid to be Liberted Within Days |
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As fighting continues, and the anti-Al Qathafi fighters make progress towards achieving success over the Al Qathafi loyalists in Sirte, National Transitional Council chairman Mustafa Abdul-Jalil, has said that both Sirte and Bani Walid would be liberated within days. |
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NTC Advance into Sirte Continues; Have Now Entered Sabamiyah |
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National Transitional Council fighters kept pounding at what was known as a strategic building for the former Libyan leader, Muammar Al Qathafi loyalists, the Ouagadougou conference hall at the fugitive leader's hometown of Sirte, and in the afternoon the revolutionaries managed to reach the residential area of Sabamiyah that until Friday had been controlled by Al Qathafi's men. |
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If Requested, It Is for UN to Take Lead in Libya, but NATO Stands Ready to Help |
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Once NATO has terminated the current operation Unified Protector in Libya, there would not be a major role for the alliance there. If it is requested to do so by the Libyan National Transitional Council, it is for the United Nations to take the lead of the international efforts to assist the new authorities in Libya. |
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NTC Fighters in Final Push to Capture Sirte |
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Former Libyan leader Muammar Al Qathafi's loyalists in his hometown of Sirte still continue to defend fiercely their positions despite being surrounded from all sides by the National Transitional Council forces. They are hemmed into an ever decreasing area, focussed mainly on the Ouagadougou conference centre. |
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Panetta Sounds Out Conditions for NATO to Terminate Mission in Libya |
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At the end of a working lunch with his counterparts from NATO countries in Brussels, US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta said that there was a pretty clear concensus among alliance ministers on four conditions that need to be met in order to terminate the NATO UN mandated mission in Libya. |
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‘Differences Among Libyans Not That Great of a Problem’ |
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The current differences among the Libyans would not stand in the way of forming the forthcoming government after fully liberating the country, Mustafa Abdul-Jalil, the head of the National Transitional Council, NTC, told Al Arabiya. |
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