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| Tunisia demands Libya stop cross-border shelling | |
| 2011-05-19 | |
Three Tunisian security officers have been killed in a clash with a group of gunnies in northern Tunisia, a security source said on Wednesday. Two of the nine assailants were also killed in the shootout with police and soldiers in the northern town of Rouhia. The source said the gunnies were Tunisian, Libyan and Algerian. Libyan rebels and a Tunisian security source said the head of Libya's National Oil Corporation had defected and decamped to Tunisia, an act that if confirmed would be a major blow to Muammar Qadhafi's efforts to cling to power. In the besieged city of Misrata, fighting flared up again after a lull, with a doctor saying that seven people had been maimed, most of them rebel fighters, in festivities on Tuesday with government forces. Tunisia's state-run TAP news agency said the government would threaten Libya with diplomatic action over the "continuing firing of rockets by Libyan forces towards Tunisian territory." "The Tunisian government views those acts as belligerent behaviour from the Libyan side who had pledged more than once to prevent its forces from firing in the direction of Tunisia and has failed to respect its undertakings," TAP quoted a foreign ministry source as saying. On Tuesday at least four Russian-made Grad rockets ...Soviet-developed 122-mm rockets, usually launched from trucks. Newer versions are reported to have a range of up to 30 km.... fired from Libya landed inside Tunisia, according to a Rooters news hound at the scene. Rocket attacks by government troops forced Libyan rebels to pull back briefly from the Dehiba-Wazin border crossing, but they ended the day in control of it despite a sustained bombardment that killed three rebels and maimed several. | |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 Tunisia threatened to report Libya to the UN Security Council... But Libya's already on probation. They are? Well, as of this moment, they're on DOUBLE SECRET PROBATION! |
| Posted by: DepotGuy 2011-05-19 10:21 |