BENGHAZI, Libya (AFP) - a car bomb exploded near the headquarters of rebels in the Libya in their eastern stronghold of Benghazi Tuesday night, injuring two people and fraying nerves in the city recently peaceful.
In the capital Tripoli three loud explosions were heard Wednesday at the start as jets flew above, days after the regime said Libyan strongman Moamer Kadhafi closely escaped a NATO air strike that killed one of his sons.
The explosion of Benghazi took place about 200 metres (yards) a seat of waterfront of insurgents fighting to overthrow Gaddafi.
"It was a car bomb, spokesman of the rebel army Omar Ahmed Bani told AFP, while Libyan as the scene journalist, Nasser Warfuli said that the vehicle was a white Chevrolet which blew just before the evening prayer."
"I was walking and everything exploded around me," Mohamed Tosi, one of the two injured men, said of his sick bed in Al-Jalaa hospital, where the second wounded, also the suffering of the shrapnel injuries, was treated and released.
The explosion caused scenes of chaos as hundreds of men, of gross guns or Kalashnikov, ground and soared to the top of the twisted metal from the wreck of the car for chanting slogans against Libyan strongman Moamer Kadhafi.
Several said they believed that the explosion, the first car bombing of Benghazi from the Libyan uprising began in February, was the work of the "cell Gaddafi."
Benghazi was about to be invaded by the forces of Gaddafi when Western combat aircraft began a bombing campaign on March 19 to enforce a no-fly zone mandated to protect civilians.
But since then, he saw no combat and the line between rebels and forces of Gaddafi is now 160 kilometers (100 miles) South.
During this time, rebel besieged city of Misrata was relatively calm Tuesday but braced for further attacks by the forces of Gaddafi as an ultimatum to surrender expired, a day after the bombing killed 14 people.
However, several kilometres away, fighting continues in Al-Ghiran and Zawiat al-Mahjoub nearly airport, rebels tried to capture forces of Gaddafi based there.
Medical sources in the town of third infantryman of the Libya said one person was killed and 22 injured late in the afternoon.
Mussa Ibrahim Government spokesman had Friday delivered an ultimatum for rebel fighters in Misrata cease fire, offer amnesty if they laid down their weapons.
But the rebels, who were under siege in the West of the city, by the faithful for about two months was quickly rejected.
With the airport in the hands of the Government, the rebels depend entirely on the supply by sea with port repeated bombed by troops of Gaddafi, a few ships are docking, which resulted in a growing shortage of food.
Benghazi, the rebels issued a call for a line of credit of emergency that could reach $ 3 billion to the United States and the two European countries to recognize them - the France and the Italy - ahead of a meeting in Rome of the International Contact Group on the Libya.
"The liquidity that we have the national will probably take us three weeks, more than four weeks," said Ali Tarhoni, who holds the portfolio of the economy and oil in the administration of rebels.
He said that the three billion would allow the administration to stay afloat for three to four months.
Rebel leaders no longer wants Qaddafi frozen assets to be unfrozen and given his administration, but to open lines of credit which is guaranteed by the countries where these assets are held, he said.
Gaddafi frozen assets anywhere in the world equivalent to $ 165 billion, said Tarhoni.
The Rome meeting is to find a political solution to the conflict in Libya, in an impasse in the fighting and a humanitarian crisis.
The discussions of the International Contact Group will also discuss whether to arm the uprising against Kadhafi and how to finance the rebels, including through oil sales in eastern Libya on world markets.
But Tarhoni said important exports are not on the cards if early.
"The priority is to protect the installations, not step to produce," he said.
Before the Rome talks, NATO member of single Muslim majority plus Turkey pressure on Kadhafi, the appeal for the first time for European Libyan to withdraw "without causing bloodshed, tears and destruction."
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