Al-Hayat

Libya rebels continued their advance towards the west, on Sunday, taking operational control of the two major cities, and Ras al-Brega Lanuf, CNN said.

The rebel forces told CNN that troops loyal to the Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi pulled back in town. Ras Lanuf CNN crew saw the damaged vehicles on the outskirts of the city, but the city seemed to avoid greater harm.

There were houses that look burnt, and others had holes. The damage seemed to struggle when Gaddafi’s forces had led initially to the rebels. There were no clashes reported Sunday, the rebels.

Earnings means that rebel forces have taken all the territory lost to the forces of Gaddafi at the start of the war. The return of the objection has been prepared in part by the coalition air attacks to stop the massacres of civilians, and have beaten the forces of Gaddafi.

Some opposition fighters concentrated on ensuring the entry of al-Brega truck Sunday while traveling to the west, meeting little resistance along the route.

Refreshed after resuming control of the nearby town of Ajdabiya Saturday, the rebels had set their sights on Al-Brega – which has a large oil refinery and a natural gas plant.

After Ras Lanuf, the next major city on the road to the capital city is the hometown of Tripoli Gaddafi in Sirte. The rebel forces, told CNN he expected a long and bloody battle there.

In the meantime, said U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates that Gaddafi to the agency people his regime had killed the locations of missile attacks by US-led coalition, according to the services.

In an interview to be broadcast Sunday on CBS program “Face the Nation,” said Bill Gates, he was not aware of coalition attacks causing civilian casualties.

“The truth is that we have trouble coming up with documentation of civilian casualties that we have been responsible,” Gates said in the interview conducted Saturday. “But we have a lot of intelligence reports on Gaddafi takes the bodies of people he killed and put them in places where we attacked.”

Asked how it happened often, Gates replied: “We have a number of reports on this subject.”

Determined to overthrow Gaddafi’s reign of nearly 42 years, the rebels have vowed to continue the march to the west of Tripoli, as the coalition air strikes continued in the nation in North Africa.

“The dictator chose to take the bloody path. … We urge him to leave or we force its removal,” spokesman of the opposition Colonel Ahmed Omar Bani said Saturday.

State television reported that civilian and military sites in the hometown of Sirte, Gaddafi Sabha and were bombed overnight.

Coalition air strikes continued NATO ready to take command of the mission in Libya this weekend.

National officials say the coalition air strikes are aimed at enforcing no-fly zone to protect civilians and Libya.

But Libyan officials countered that claim and said that troops of the coalition forces loyal to the only goal Gaddafi.

“The goal is to promote our city for the armored forces of the city. This is the objective of the coalition now. This is not to protect civilians,” said the Libyan Deputy Foreign Minister Khalid Kaim Saturday.

National Coalition aircraft flew 96 missions at least 24 hours in air strike, which ended Saturday, according to statistics released by the Pentagon and the leader of the damage done to the troops of Gaddafi.

Opposition fighters shouted gratitude for the support of the coalition when they control the litigation Ajdabiya is considered as a gateway to the Libyan oil fields and milestone in the rebel stronghold of Benghazi.

They were sure that without the powers of protection, could be held in the city have captured once, but lost the army Gaddafi.

coalition air campaign continued on Saturday, which further limits movement loyalist. French Air Force has destroyed at least five fighters and two helicopters Libya over a period of 24 hours, said the Ministry of Defence.

Explosions and air strikes were also reported in Tripoli, and Tarhunah Misrata.

U.S. President Barack Obama defended the leadership of America in the international coalition in his weekly radio address Saturday.

“The United States should not – and can not – to intervene whenever there is a crisis somewhere in the world,” Obama said. “But I firmly believe that when innocent people are brutalized when someone Gaddafi massacre threat that could destabilize the entire region and the international community is prepared to do together to save thousands of lives and -.. ‘our national interest to act and that is our responsibility to present is one of those moments. ”

But Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has criticized the approach of the coalition in a speech at the media Saturday Venezuelan state.

The friend and longtime ally of al-Gaddafi has described the attack as imperialist military intervention and said that “terrorists” had infiltrated the rebels Libya.

“These groups have abducted and killed civilians and soldiers who supported and defended the sovereignty of Libya,” he said.