Libyan rebels attacked in Misrata

Libyan Government forces fired dozens of rockets on the coastal town of Misrata Thursday, triggering a spokesman of rebels demand NATO intervention.

The spokesman, identified by Reuters only as Abdelsalam, warned in a telephone call with the Office of an imminent "massacre" if NATO did not intensify frappes on troops loyal to the Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi.

Abdelsalam said at least eight rebels were killed in recent attacks by Government forces.

A laser guided bomb is installed on a Rafale combat aircraft before a mission on the Libya of flagship of France aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle, in the Gulf of Sidra off the Libyan coast, Wednesday. Christophe Ena/Reuters.

Foreign Affairs Ministers from 28 countries of NATO, meanwhile, were meeting in Berlin on Thursday and Friday, Libyan conflict their priority.

Britain and the France have lobbied for other alliance countries to invest more in the military campaign in Libya, involving missions designed to protect civilians from the bombing Kadhafi forces.

Only six countries in NATO aircraft perform aerial, with French military aircraft and British strikes making half of the flights, a French official said Agency France-Press. Belgium, Denmark, Canada and the Norway also took part in air strikes.

Reuters quoted French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe said Thursday that his country is not currently for arming the Libyan rebels.

Too, Spain, has indicated that it will not extend its role in Libya. Jimenez of Trinidad for the Spanish Minister for Foreign Affairs, said his country will paste to help enforce a no-fly zone mandated and the arms embargo.

In the complaints of the allies that the armed forces us should do more in the operation of Libya, Pentagon officials disclosed Wednesday that American hunters continued airstrikes in the country, even after that the United States given the mission of NATOLast week.

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Syrian forces attacked two villages near Baniyas - Washington Post

Cairo - Two Syrian villages from the North near the entrance of Mediterranean port of Baniyas under attack fiercely by Government forces Tuesday, according to witnesses and activists, as the Government stepped up Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to remove a protest movement apparently building.

Graphic Tweetchart: Middle East and North Africa in the turmoil

An unknown number of demonstrators were killed and several others wounded, according to people reached by telephone in Syria. The State-run Syrian Arab News Agency also reported that seven of the nine soldiers killed in the fighting in streets near Baniyas Sunday were buried Tuesday.

During this time, the New York - based Human Rights Watch issued a report accusing the security forces of the Syria to flout international law in shooting medical staff or otherwise preventing them from tending to wounded Friday during some of the most intense clashes of agitation for long months.

The White House again joined a choir growing international criticism of the Government in Damascus, issuing a statement called the growing use of the force "scandalous", condemns for blocking security forces would have been a medical aid to the wounded.

Tuesday, Syrian troops, security forces and armed pro-government thugs bouclé Baida and Ejnad villages in the middle of the morning and went home to rounding up people, said Haitham al-Maleh, 80, lawyer and defender of the rights of man in Damascus.

Several hundred people, most of these young people have been detained at single Baida, according to a person affiliated with a local University who spoke the condition of anonymity for fear of reprisals. Food deliveries have been arrested, and electrical and cell phone service was cut, the person added.

Some prisoners were bound, beaten and forced to say, "with blood and soul, we save you, Bashar!", said the activist of the University.

When other villagers marched in the streets to protest against the repression of military and security forces opened fire on them, said Maleh, counsel.

Malath Aumran, 26, an activist who contacted Baida residents on the Internet despite the intermittent service, said that ambulances had been blocked to retrieve the wounded and sometimes targeted by gunfire and that some wounded avoided local hospitals for fear of being arrested by security forces.

In a sign that some members of the security apparatus are sympathetic to anti-government demonstrators, Aumran also cited reports that some soldiers had disobeyed orders to shoot protesters and that they themselves were killed.

But it was impossible to verify if its account and others because the Syria expelled most of the country's media organizations and communication and services are often lower.

Through interviews with 20 Syrians, Human Rights Watch said it had documented that Government forces targeted ambulances and doctors in bloody clashes Friday, the Duma, Dara and Harasta. The Group also stated that it had documented the deaths of 28 people this day here.

The group, which says it has compiled lists of the dead and confirmed by interviewing the families of the victims, said that the uprising has cost at least 170 lives. Other groups feel that the number of dead has reached 200.

kunklef@washpost.com

Mansour is corresponding special.

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