23687566 Insurgents launched a new ultimatum to defenders of Sirte
The head of the National Transitional Council (NPC), Mustafa Abdel Jalil Libya August 30 put forward an official ultimatum supporters Muammar Gaddafi, took up defensive positions in his native town, Colonel – Sirte. According to The Guardian, his condition Jalil announced during a press conference in Benghazi. According to him, the rebels are willing to not take Sirte storm in four days if the defenders announce their surrender. "If on Saturday (September 3), we do not receive clear signals about the surrender of the city, we will act with determination to resolve the situation with the use of military methods. We do not want it, but then we're not going to wait" – said Jalil. Head of NPC said that the rebels will not resume active operations until the end of a three-day Eid al-Fitr and the following Friday – the day off in Islamic countries. As previously reported, the rebels already was presenting the supporters of al-Gaddafi in Sirte ultimatum, demanding that they cease resistance until August 30, but the response to this proposal, they have not received. Sirte remains the only major settlement on the coast of Libya, still under the control of government troops. In addition, their hands still Sabha city in the south of Libya in the middle of the desert. Observers believe that in one of these cities may be hiding Moammar Gadhafi and some of his sons, but no reliable information about his whereabouts not. At the same time, we know that the daughter of a colonel, his wife and two sons fled to Libya, he fled to neighboring Algeria. The rebels have demanded that their fugitives, which opponents of the Gaddafi is accused of committing war crimes against the Libyan people, but were refused.
