A call for surrender in Bani Walid, Libya
- 13 years ago
A call for surrender.
Some 20 kilometers outside the Gaddafi strong hold of Bani Walid, the chief negotiator for anti Gaddafi forces, Abdullah Kinshil is calling for peace.
SOUNDBITE: Chief negotiator for anti Gaddafi forces, Abdullah Kinshil, saying: (English):
"We hope there will be no more bodies and we ask Gaddafi and his group to leave the town -- please leave the town. Forty-two years of bloodshed, it's enough -- it's enough. We don't want more bloodshed, however, it will not deter the people of Bani Walid from receiving the revolutionaries,"
Anti-Gaddafi forces are waiting for the right moment to make the decision to advance into the city.
This comes as Gaddafi resurfaced on the air waves to berate his enemies as rats and stray dogs and insisted he was still in Libya to fight on. He offered no clues about where they could find him.
His defiant comments to a Syrian TV station came as the forces of Libya's new government tightened a siege on the tribal bastion of Bani Walid, where some suspected the ousted strongman and two of his sons may be sheltering.
In what Syrian broadcaster Arrai said was a telephone call from Libya early Thursday, the 69-year-old Gaddafi, who was toppled by rebels two weeks ago after 42 years in power, rallied supporters and said surrender was out of the question.
Deborah Lutterbeck,Reuters.
Some 20 kilometers outside the Gaddafi strong hold of Bani Walid, the chief negotiator for anti Gaddafi forces, Abdullah Kinshil is calling for peace.
SOUNDBITE: Chief negotiator for anti Gaddafi forces, Abdullah Kinshil, saying: (English):
"We hope there will be no more bodies and we ask Gaddafi and his group to leave the town -- please leave the town. Forty-two years of bloodshed, it's enough -- it's enough. We don't want more bloodshed, however, it will not deter the people of Bani Walid from receiving the revolutionaries,"
Anti-Gaddafi forces are waiting for the right moment to make the decision to advance into the city.
This comes as Gaddafi resurfaced on the air waves to berate his enemies as rats and stray dogs and insisted he was still in Libya to fight on. He offered no clues about where they could find him.
His defiant comments to a Syrian TV station came as the forces of Libya's new government tightened a siege on the tribal bastion of Bani Walid, where some suspected the ousted strongman and two of his sons may be sheltering.
In what Syrian broadcaster Arrai said was a telephone call from Libya early Thursday, the 69-year-old Gaddafi, who was toppled by rebels two weeks ago after 42 years in power, rallied supporters and said surrender was out of the question.
Deborah Lutterbeck,Reuters.