Libya updates and.. Video Of Bloody Battle To Hold Brega

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The World Food Programme says a ship carrying 1,000 tonnes of flour to Benghazi has had to turn back without unloading its cargo because of aerial bombardments, AFP reports

Poland has suspended diplomatic activity in Tripoli, and says it will evacuate its embassy staff from the Libyan capital, the foreign ministry said in Warsaw,


Rebels fighting the Kadhafi regime say it appears that the Libyan stongman is shoring up his forces with more hired foreign troops in and around the rebel-held Libyan town of Brega. "Today it seems like Kadhafi is reinforcing his forces with mercenaries. Witnesses have seen troops (and Chadian mercenaries) moving towards Raslanuf," said Abdelfattah al-Moghrabi, director of supplies for Brega hospital."We are waiting to see if they attack or make a reinforcing line before Sirte," he said.Several sources said meanwhile that forces loyal to Kadhafi captured at least five people in Brega during their counter-offensive.


:Kadhafi son Seif al-Islam, defending the bombing of Brega harbour, said the port was of critical importance to the Libyan economy.Brega, he said, is the "oil and gas hub of Libya. All of us, we eat, we live because of Brega. Without Brega six million people have no future, because we export all of our oil from there".Those taking over the city were clearly a "militia, they were filming themselves, they came with three tanks and heavy machine guns".He added: "Nobody would allow the militia to control Brega, it's like you're allowing somebody to control Rotterdam harbour in Holland."

  Rebels in the opposition-held city of Benghazi mourned their dead, holding funerals for six of the militia fighting the Kadhafi regime, as well as several others in the town of Ajdabiya, 150 kilometres (94 miles) to the west. "Kadhafi get out, Libyans don't want you" and "Kadhafi you're crazy" they shouted.In Benghazi a spokesman at the courthouse, the rebels' nerve centre, who did not want to be named, said, "We have taken a lot of prisoners, as many as 100."An official at a hospital in Benghazi told AFP that rebels captured included three Libyans and two unidentified "Africans," adding that they had been taken to Benghazi for questioning.

Moamer Kadhafi's son Seif al-Islam tells Britain's Sky News television that bombs dropped on the eastern port of Brega were intended simply to "frighten" rebels there, not to kill anyone."First of all. the bombs (are) just to frighten them to go away, not to attack the harbour. Not to kill our people," he said, adding "Brega is not a city. Brega is an oil harbour."