Addressing a news conference in Tripoli just hours after loud explosions again rocked the Libyan capital, Prime Minister Baghdadi al-Mahmudi accused Nato of committing “war crimes and crimes against humanity” by “directly targeting civilian sites” with air raids over the past three days.
State television aired Gaddafi’s comments in what it said was a live telephone call from the Libyan leader, who has gone underground since the Western-led air war was launched in March, as thousands of his supporters gathered in Tripoli’s Green Square for their biggest rally in weeks.
Baghdadi said that the governments of the countries where regime envoys had approached rebel representatives were fully aware that multiple contacts were under way as detailed by Russian envoy Mikhail Margelov.— Reuters
