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送交者: 走肖圼昱 2011年07月28日
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Libyan rebel commander Abdel Fattah Younes assassinated in Benghazi, the
National Transitional Council says.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/07/28/501364/main20085027.s
Libyan rebels' military chief shot dead
A May 2011 file photo of General Abdel-Fattah Younis, the senior military
officer leading rebel forces against Muammar Qaddafi. A former interior
minister and head of Special Forces, Younis was considered a key supporter
of Qaddafi before defecting. (ALFRED/Sipa via AP Images)
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The head of the Libyan rebel's armed forces and two of his aides were killed
by gunmen Thursday, the head of the rebel leadership said.
The death of Abdel-Fattah Younis was announced at a press conference in the
de facto rebel capital, Benghazi, by the head of the rebels' National
Transitional Council, Mustafa Abdul-Jalil. He told reporters that rebel
security had arrested the head of the group behind the killing.
Rebel security had arrested Younis and two of his aides early Thursday from
their operations room near the rebels' eastern front.
Security officials said at the time that Younis was to be questioned about
suspicions his family still had ties to Muammar Qadaffi's regime.
Younis was Qadaffi's interior minister before defecting to the rebels early
in the uprising, which began in February.
Abdel-Jalil said that Younis had been summoned for questioning regarding "a
military matter." He said Younis and his two aides were shot before they
arrived for questioning.
Abdel-Jalil called Younis "one of the heroes of the 17th of February
revolution," a name marking the date of early protests against Qadaffi's
regime.
While he criticized Qadaffi for seeking to break the unity of rebel forces,
he did not say directly that Younis' killers were associated with the regime
. Instead, he issued a stiff warning about "armed groups" in rebel-held
cities, saying they needed to join the fight against Qadaffi or risk being
arrested by security forces.
Younis defected to the rebel side in February, but rumors have spread that
he has engaged in secret talks with the Qaddafi regime.
A witness told Reuters that this morning Younis' home in Benghazi was
strongly guarded by soldiers, who had blocked the street and were not
letting anyone in,
Special Section: Anger in the Arab world
Meanwhile, hundreds of rebels in western Libya launched a broad offensive
against government forces Thursday, seizing three small towns and advancing
on others to secure a major supply route near the Tunisian border, rebel
spokesmen said.
Four rebel fighters were killed and several wounded in what the spokesmen
described as the biggest push in the area since the start of Libya's civil
war five months ago.
They said rebels captured 18 government soldiers, as well as weapons and
ammunition.
Libya's civil war has been largely deadlocked, despite shifting front lines,
and rebels have been unable to score a major breakthrough on the battle
field. Rebels control Libya's eastern third and most of the Nafusa mountains
in the west, as well as the western port city of Misrata. Libyan leader
Muammar Qadaffi, entrenched in the capital of Tripoli, is clinging to the
rest of the territory.
In Thursday's fighting, hundreds of rebels descended from their stronghold
in the Nafusa mountains at dawn and advanced in several areas along a
stretch of more than 60 miles, said rebel spokesmen Badees Fessato and Abdel
-Salam Othman. Opposition forces drove government troops out of the small
towns of Jawsh, Ghezaya and Takut, Othman said.
Rebels were also advancing toward the town of Badr and two other areas.
Jawsh is about 95 miles east of the Tunisian border and located along a main
road between Tunisia and Tripoli. Ghezaya is closer to the Tunisian border,
and had served as a base for shelling attacks by Qadaffi's forces on the
rebel-held border town of Nalut.
One of the objectives of the push is to drive back pro-Qadaffi forces from
the rebels' main supply route between the Tunisian border and the Nafusa
mountains, the spokesmen said. Rebels seized control of the Tunisian-Libyan
border closest to the Nafusa area in April, but Qadaffi's forces have
repeatedly tried to retake it and have shelled the supply road.
"The goal is to liberate the area and secure the road from the border to all
of the liberated regions," Othman said.
Thursday's offensive came a day after Britain recognized Libya's main
opposition group, the National Transitional Council, as Libya's sole
representative, dealing another blow to the isolated Qadaffi regime.
However, the rebels appear to be increasingly divided over what would be an
acceptable way of ending the civil war.
France, Britain and the U.S. have indicated they would accept an arrangement
in which Qadaffi retires, but is allowed to stay in Libya, and the rebel
chief, Mustafa Abdul-Jalil, has also suggested he would consider the idea.
But the U.K. organizer for the rebel council, Guma El-Gamaty, said Thursday
that the plan is unworkable and shouldn't even be considered.
With the possibility of a political deal seemingly off the table, fighting
was bound to continue.
Abdul-Jalil said this week that the rebels would not lay down their weapons
during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, which begins next week and is a
time of increased religious observance.
Qadaffi has also signaled defiance in audio messages in recent days. In a
message released on state TV late Wednesday, Qadaffi demanded that the
western mountain rebels give up their weapons.
"Surrender, you traitors! The people of Libya are pushing forward (to the
western mountains) — choose to surrender or die," Qadaffi shouted.
He said that without relying on NATO bombings, the rebels would not have
been able to hold the mountains. NATO, acting under a U.N. mandate to
protect civilians, has been bombing regime-linked targets since March 31. | t*n
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: 利比亚叛军首领被干掉了!
: 送交者: 走肖圼昱 2011年07月28日
: http://www.cnn.com/
: Libyan rebel commander Abdel Fattah Younes assassinated in Benghazi, the
: National Transitional Council says.
: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/07/28/501364/main20085027.s
: Libyan rebels' military chief shot dead
: A May 2011 file photo of General Abdel-Fattah Younis, the senior military
: officer leading rebel forces against Muammar Qaddafi. A former interior
: minister and head of Special Forces, Younis was considered a key supporter
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