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"The situation is... Email Print Factbox Latest military activity in Libya 8:58am EDT Related News Misrata under heavy bombardment: Libyan rebels 7:20am EDT Russia calls on Libya to comply with U.N. 9:39am EDT Analysis & Opinion As its power declines, the U.S. pays the price Afghanistan : The gnawing fear of transition Related Topics World » United Nations » Libya » Related Video Fleeing Misrata 12:37am EDT Doctors treat Gaddafi soldiers NATO hits near Gaddafi compound 1 / 14 Libyan evacuees arrive by ship from Misrata during an evacuation operation organized by IOM (International Organization for Migration) at the port of Benghazi April 24, 2011. Credit: Reuters/Amr Abdallah Dalsh By Alexander Dziadosz BENGHAZI, Libya | Sun Apr 24, 2011 10:16am EDT BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) - Forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi bombarded Misrata on Sunday, a day after rebels celebrated the pullback of government troops from the western Libyan city, a rebel spokesman said. "The situation is very dangerous," rebel spokesman Abdelsalam said by telephone from Misrata. "Gaddafi's brigades started random bombardment in the early hours of this morning. The bombardment is still going on." Captured government troops said on Saturday they had been ordered to retreat from Misrata -- the only major rebel-held city in western Libya -- after a siege of nearly two months, and rebels fighting to overthrow Gaddafi had claimed victory. But on Sunday, government forces bombarded three residential areas and the city center, including Tripoli Street, the thoroughfare which has been the scene of intense fighting in recent weeks, Abdelsalam said. Another rebel spokesman, Ahmed Hassan, said at least one person was killed and 12 wounded. Hundreds have been killed in the fighting for Misrata, raising fears of a humanitarian crisis in the besieged city. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov phoned Libyan Prime Minister Al-Baghdadi Ali al-Mahmoudi on Saturday to urge Tripoli to implement United Nations Security Council resolutions and end attacks on civilians. "Lavrov said that the most important issue now is to stop the bloodshed and sufferings of the civilian population," the Russian foreign ministry said on its website on Sunday. But rebels in their eastern stronghold Benghazi said they had no expectations of an early end to fighting in Misrata. "I don't think this is a real withdrawal," rebel military spokesman Ahmed Bani told Reuters. He suggested government loyalists may be trying to stoke tensions between Misrata and neighboring towns, and that Gaddafi's troops might return to the city later under the guise of intervening to protect local tribes from the rebels. Libyan Deputy Foreign Minister Khaled Kaim said on Friday the army would "leave it to the tribes and the people around Misrata to deal with the situation whether by using force or using negotiations." British Foreign Secretary William Hague told the BBC he doubted Gaddafi's forces were really going to withdraw. "This may be cover for using more insurgent type warfare without any uniforms and without tanks." REBELS SAY THEY NEED WEAPONS Britain and France have been leading air strikes against Gaddafi's forces in an operation mandated by the U.N. Security Council on March 17 to protect civilians in Libya. The United States has also deployed Predator drones, using the unmanned plane for the first time on Saturday to attack the site of a multiple rocket launcher near Misrata. Rebels have so far, however, been unable to advance from the east as they fight back-and-forth battles with Gaddafi's troops on the coastal road between the towns of Ajdabiyah and Brega. Rebel spokesman Bani said the rebels in the east were still outmatched by the superior firepower of Gaddafi's troops. "If we obtain weapons, I think we would be able to solve this problem in maximum one month," he said. Western countries, reluctant to be further dragged into a conflict in a third Muslim country after wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, have been unwilling to arm the rebels. But Britain and France have said they will send military advisors and Italy is considering sending military trainers. Western powers have been bombing Libyan positions for more than a month. The United States, Britain and France say they will not stop their air war until Gaddafi leaves office. Given the stalemate in the east, the announcement that Gaddafi's troops were pulling out of Misrata was the first suggestion in weeks of a shift in the balance of the war. On Saturday, rebels in Misrata celebrated their success. "Misrata is free, the rebels have won. Of Gaddafi's forces, some are killed and others are running away," a rebel spokesmen said by telephone from the city. One government soldier, Khaled Dorman, among a group of 12 being brought to hospital for treatment in Misrata, told Reuters that, "We have been told to withdraw. We were told to withdraw yesterday." But the mood of victory among the rebels appeared to be short-lived. By late on Saturday, Al Jazeera television reported that heavy fighting continued around a hospital in western Misrata being used as a base by Gaddafi's forces. DIPLOMACY Libya's official JANA news agency said on Saturday Prime Minister Mahmoudi held separate telephone conversations with Russia's Lavrov and Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou. While speaking with Papandreou he "reiterated Libya's commitment to United Nations resolutions," JANA said. The Libyan government has repeatedly made calls for ceasefires but rebels say they are not matched by its actions. Russia, which has criticized Western air strikes, is "prepared to work with the African Union and the U.N. to move the situation to political and diplomatic channels," the Russian foreign ministry said. Libyan Foreign Minister Abdelati Obeidi crossed into Tunisia on Saturday and then flew to the capital Tunis, a Tunisian security source said. It was not clear where Obeidi, who held talks in Cyprus earlier this month, would go next. Cypriot officials denied he was heading their way. (Additional reporting by Tim Castle in London and Lin Nouehid in Tripoli, writing by Myra MacDonald, editing by Jon Boyle) World United Nations Libya Tweet this Share this Link this Digg this Email Reprints We welcome comments that advance the story directly or with relevant tangential information. We try to block comments that use offensive language, all capital letters or appear to be spam, and we review comments frequently to ensure they meet our standards. If you see a comment that you believe is irrelevant or inappropriate, you can flag it to our editors by using the report abuse links. Views expressed in the comments do not represent those of Reuters. Comments (3) JamesChirico wrote: The booby trapping of dead bodies, opening a refrigerator having a bomb detonate, only strengthens the people’s resolve against Gadhafi, much like the Afghans against the Russians. The Libyans are will to sacrifice all to gain their freedom. A good article about it can be found at http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/apr/23/libya-benghazi-gaddafi-revolution Apr 24, 2011 1:02am EDT -- Report as abuse san-serriffe wrote: This is a war between a corrupt régime–which, however, unlike most corrupt régimes in the world is not a puppet of and entirely subservient to the West–on one side, and a bunch of CIA/MI6/DGSE-backed opportunists on the other who rely on a passionately gullible educated Libyan minority and social/tribal divides (plus an element of anti-sub-Saharan racism) to sell themselves as freedom fighters. The majority of Libyans would choose peace over democracy any day, but the West has made sure to transform an externally-orchestrated protest into an all-out civil war in order to take control of North Africa and drive out China and bring about the New Order. Naturally, as the civil war goes on, lives will be disrupted and people killed and others radicalized, and reconciliation becomes impossible, which is just what the West and the opportunist rebel leaders want (and the régime was trying to avoid). If the West truly cared about the civilian population of Libya, far from engineering and taking sides in a civil war, they shouldn’t have orchestrated/supported the uprising in the first place, and the majority of the civilians in Libya would now be living a normal (and highly subsidized) life, just as they were doing a few months ago (while a powerful élite would continue to make huge profits from shady deals at the expense of the masses, which is also the case in Western “democracies” by the way). With Republicans, we hear of national security and rogue states and the war on terror; with Democrats, humanitarian crises and “democratic” oppositions/freedom fighters conveniently pop up around the world and get saturation coverage. The public explanations change; the principle of imperialist interventionism doesn’t. Western mass media are the cheerleaders of Western imperialism. Apr 24, 2011 3:33am EDT -- Report as abuse DDavid wrote: When Libya’s citizens (we call them rebels) say “free” they mean they have freedom of movement within the city. Gaddafi soldiers & mercenaries only moved to the outskirts of the city and are pounding the city indiscriminately with long range Grad Rockets. Gaddafi also laid mines or booby-traps explosives before pulling out, which leaves children playing in huge danger. This megalomaniac wants to butcher every man, women and child and never give up until he is dead himself. The West hasn’t realized that until now. They thought he would just resign. LOL the guy is a psycho, we should have know that when he killed some 300 Americans on flight Pam Am a few years back. The rebels will win because that’s their country and their home. Hiring BelarousRussians and Chad mercenaries is a pretty sad state of affairs to kill you own citizens and has poisoned their drinking water. I hope we will help all we can, and be for once on the right side of history, especially when we are begged to do so by its citizens. 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