Libyan Rebels Plead For No-Fly Zone In Interview

Les troupes de Kadhafi progressent... À l'évidence, on souhaite plus qu'un support moral.

A rebel leader pleaded Saturday with the international community to approve a no-fly zone over Libya as Moammar Gadhafi's forces gained strength in the east, securing a key port city and oil refinery.

Mustafa Abdul-Jalil, the head of the opposition's interim governing council, also expressed disappointment over the failure to act by the United States and other Western countries, which have expressed solidarity with the rebels in their fight to oust Gadhafi but stopped short of approving any military action.

"If there is no no-fly zone imposed on Gadhafi's regime, and if his ships are not checked then we will have a catastrophe in Libya," Abdul-Jalil told The Associated Press in an interview in a professors' lounge at the Omar Mukhtar University in Bayda, where he is also head of the city council.