Sunday, March 27, 2011

The Rebels Controlled the Oil City of Libya

The rebels are opposed to the Libyan leader, Muammar Gaddafi yesterday seized the oil city. The strength of the rebel groups rose after they captured the city of another oil, Brega in the east of the military Gaddafi of Libya. Brega and Ras Lanuf city produces a large amount of crude oil of 1.5 million barrels a day is exported every day Libya. But the country's oil exports ceased on February 15 following the actions of protesters who opposed the Gaddafi.

Members of the rebels are now on the way to recapture some of the troops left by Gaddafi. The success of the rebel group that helped the Western military air attack led the United States (U.S.) to enforce the flight ban on Libya zone. On Saturday, the rebels captured the town Ajdabiyah. "No more soldiers here Gaddafi. We control the whole city," said a member of the rebels, Youssef Ahmed, 22, in Jawad Bin city, 525 kilometers east of the city of Tripoli.

A Reuters reporter saw more than 12 trucks filled with machine guns in the city center Jawad Bin. According to the rebels, troops loyal to roots that Gaddafi has retreated. Insurgents now planning to move to the east of Sirte on the Mediterranean that are considered strong holds Gaddafi. So far, Gaddafi still has not made ​​his appearance after giving a speech to the people in Tripoli last week.

NATO Took Over Military Operations in Libya

North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) agreed to take over military operations in Libya, NATO officials and diplomats said today.

"NATO has decided to implement all the laws set by the United Nations (UN) to protect the public and the territory from any threat, Muammar Gaddafi regime," the NATO official said after a meeting with 28 members of allied countries.

Consequently, NATO has the mandate to regulate and determine the movement of military operations.

Nuclear's Worker Told to Move

Japanese authorities issue of workers from the nuclear reactor power plants Fuskuhima Daiichi damaged after detecting an increase of radiation.

The management company Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO), which operates the state power plants, radiation levels in the water in the plant's second reactor is more than an hour milisievert 1.000 compared with the national safety standard that is only 250 milisievert year.

U.S. Security Protection Agency states millisievert of radiation of1.000 was enough to cause bleeding in the human body.

TEPCO officials said the workers were removed from the reactor turbine building number two, to prevent their contact with harmful radiation.

The workers had previously tried to pump out the water in the reactor containing the radioactive material.

Thursday, March 24, 2011

Syria has Become More Volatile

More than 100 people were killed after members of the armed police opened fire on a group of protesters in the city Daraa, southern Syria on Saturday, according to several witnesses and human rights activists yesterday. Human rights activists in Daraa, Ayman al-Asswad said, security personnel using live ammunition when shooting at the demonstrators in the city, located 120 kilometers south of Damascus. "The mortality has been identified more than 100 people and residents in this city take about a week to bury the martyrs," he said when contacted by telephone yesterday. Another activist put the death toll higher number of 150 deaths.

However, different things are reported by the Syrian authorities, when only 10 people who died. Daraa city with a population of 75,000 people has been a stronghold of anti-government protests since March 18 last. Meanwhile, thousands of people shouting freedom in this city during the funeral of nine anti-government protesters held. Actions of the protesters objected to the government, led by the Baath Party which has close ties with Shiite leaders in Iran.

The city is inhabited by people of many faiths are Sunni. United States also condemned the killings in the city. Following the protest, Syria will make some important decisions. The announcement was made by an adviser to Syrian President, Bashar al-Assad after anti-government demonstrations occurred since last week.

The protesters wanted Bashar resigns. The claim was made after Zine El Abidine Ben Ali to resign as President of Tunisia in January and follow the same Hosni Mubarak in Egypt due to the rise of the people. Bashar became president in 2002 to succeed his father, who died, Hafez al-Assad.

Tripoli was attacked Western military

Several explosions and gun fire rocked the cities of anti-aircraft yesterday when the Western military attack on the sixth day.

The attack came after the Libyan leader, Muammar Gaddafi appeared to show he is still alive despite the Western forces led by the United States (U.S.), Britain and France launched an attack onSaturday.

The attack was made ​​to enforce the flight ban zones approved by the United Nations (UN) last week.

Zoning flight ban was enforced to prevent the military attack on Gaddafi civilians.

However, the Libyan government claims that Western military attack resulted in 18 soldiers and civilians were killed.

According to the U.S. military yesterday, the Western allied forces have released 14 Tomahawk missiles firing on security forces overnight Gaddafi.

A spokesman for the U.S. government in Central Africa in the German states, the countries that participated in the attack were also dropped bombs on several targets in Libya.

ABC's network television stations reported the news yesterday that a French fighter jet shot down a Libyan war planes Misrata city.

The airplane was charged with disobeying the ban fly zone enforced by the UN.

Since the U.S. led coalition forces launched the enforcement offlight restriction zones in Libya last week, more than 175 missiles bombarded Tomahawak in Libya.

Bebaskan Raja Petra dan Teresa Kok