AFP - Troops of Muammar Qaddafi continued to pound the insurgents on Wednesday in the western and eastern Libya, while the Security Council agreed on a draft resolution providing for an exclusion zone air over the country who will vote Thursday.
"A draft resolution has been developed ...But this does not mean it is etched in stone, "said one UN diplomat that the 15 member countries can still change the text.
The U.S. ambassador to the UN, Susan Rice, said the Security Council of the United Nations should consider "going beyond a simple no-fly zone".
Colonel Gaddafi prepares a "real genocide" in Libya, had earlier warned the Libyan Deputy Ambassador to the UN, Ibrahim Dabbachi, who defected to the plan, calling for a rapid response from the international community, which was delaying for several days .
Wednesday, Muammar Gaddafi announced that his forces would deliver Thursday "decisive battle" to win Misrata, third largest city, 150 km east of Tripoli, which the insurgents said they were always in control, despite offensive pro-Gaddafi who was, according to them, at least four dead and ten wounded.
"The battle began today in Misrata and tomorrow it will be the decisive battle," said the Libyan leader, according to pictures broadcast by state television.
Gaddafi has also excluded the "dialogue" with rebels it has assimilated to agents of Al Qaeda in an interview published by French daily Le Figaro on Thursday, and felt that the National Transitional Council (CNT) created by opponents of Benghazi, "worthless".
The Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has called for the cessation of violence and warned that "killing innocent and unarmed people is a crime against humanity" whose leaders have to face justice.
After managing to take several towns in recent days, loyalists bombarded by air and land Ajdabiya, the last lock of the rebels at 160 km south of their stronghold of Benghazi in the east, witnesses said.At least 26 people have been killed since Tuesday, said a doctor.
"The fighting was terrifying," recalled Dr. Mohammad Abdelkarim, reached by telephone, adding that the hospital had received 22 dead Tuesday, mostly civilians, and four insurgents on Wednesday.
The hospital itself was hit by a shell and some staff was evacuated to Benghazi, according to another doctor.But supporters of Gaddafi Wednesday controlled the road between the two cities.
In the evening, state television has ensured that the city was "purged" of the rebels.
"They practice a scorched earth policy", denounced Jamal Mansour, commander of the rebels in the city, "the tanks bombard so intense and sustained, and earlier there were air raids."
After a month of a revolt that has turned into civil war, Mr.Gaddafi, who refuses to leave office after more than four decades of unchallenged rule, vowed Tuesday to "crush the enemy," while one of his son, Seif al-Islam, promised: "in 48 hours everything will be finished. "
The White House called on Libyan authorities to protect journalists, four reporters from the New York Times is missing in the country, presumably kidnapped by followers of MrGaddafi.
Faced with the breakthrough of loyalist troops, an ever-increasing flow of Libyans, entire families piled into cars weighed down by luggage, hurry to the Egyptian border.
The regular forces were also attacked with heavy weapons Zentena the town, 145 km southwest of Tripoli, according to one witness reached by telephone."There are shots of tanks a few miles south of the city and firing Grad missiles and clashes with light weapons," he said.
The Organization of Islamic Conference, which comprises 57 members with more than one billion Muslims, has announced an emergency meeting Saturday in Libya.
