President Obama reasserted America's accountability as a world leader to prevent atrocities Monday as he defended interference in Libya amid critic concerned with the cost of military action and involvement in another war.
"To brush aside America's responsibility as a leader and – more profoundly – our responsibilities to our fellow human beings under such circumstances would have been a betrayal of who we are. Some nation may be able to turn a blind eye to atrocities in other countries. The united States of America is different. And as president, I refuse to wait for the images of slaughter and mass graves ahead of taking action," he said during a speech at the National protection University in Washington D.C.
Enforcing a No-Fly Zone Could Stop Gadhafi's Ability to Launch Air Attacks As forces loyal to Moammar Gadhafi battle the resistance for control of key cities, the Obama administration is under increasing pressure to do something to stop the violence.
Although rebel celebrated after pushing Gadhafi's forces out of Misrata, this increasingly appears to be a fight no one is engaging. United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon talked to Libyan unfamiliar Minister Musa Kusa and call for an end to the fighting, according to a U.N. statement Sunday. The fighting in Libya have escalated with forces loyal to Gadhafi by means of helicopter gunships and rockets to pound rebel forces over the weekend.
Pro-Gadhafi warplanes bomb town in rebel-held east of Libya, retake oil facility Witnesses say a town in the rebel-held east of Libya has come beneath air attacks and forces loyal to leader Moammar Gadhafi have retaken a nearby lubricate facility
The witnesses told The connected Press they saw two warplanes bomb the eastern part of the town of Ajdabiya at 10 a.m. local time Wednesday. They also supposed that pro-Gadhafi forces were advance on the town, some 470 miles (750 kilometers) east of the capital Tripoli.Ahmed Jerksi, manager of the Sirte oil company which runs the facility in the eastern town of Brega, said pro-Gadhafi forces retook control of the facility, southwest of Ajdabiya.
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The bodies of slain protesters were absent on the streets of the Libyan capital Tuesday and frightened residents hunkered down in their home as forces loyal to Moammar Gadhafi sought to crush revolutionary demonstrations by shooting on sight anyone outside, residents and an opposition activist said.
Amid the crackdown, a defiant Gadhafi appeared on state TV in the early hours Tuesday to show he was still in incriminate brandishing a large umbrella and wearing a cap with fur ear flaps, and denying reports he had absent the country. The eruption of turmoil in the capital after a week of protests in addition to bloody clashes in Libya's eastern cities has sharply escalated the challenge to Gadhafi, and his regime has been hit by a string of defections by ambassadors overseas and even some officials at home. His security forces have unleashed the bloodiest crackdown of any Arab country aligned with the wave of protests sweeping the region, which topple leaders of Egypt and Tunisia.
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Libya's Moammar Gadhafi briefly plunge into crowds of his countrymen near Tripoli's Green Square last Friday, riding atop a truck bounded by supporters. It was likely an attempt to portray the hoards taking to the streets as his own backers, rather than revolutionary demonstrators, at the same time as is now overwhelmingly the case. He didn't speak publicly and hasn't be seen since then.
Just three days later, it's unlikely he'd stay alive crowd-surfing the larger, angrier crowds that have swept westward after claiming control of Libya's second-largest city, Benghazi, to the capital Tripoli today. Snipers opened fire on protesters trying in the direction of seize Green Square previous to sunrise, in addition to demonstrators broke into the offices of state-run TV channels. Violent crackdowns by plainclothes security forces have killed at least 233, according to Human Rights timepiece.
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