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Battles raging in western Libya flashpoints

International Criminal Court seeks Gaddafi's arrest

AFP, Tripoli
Fighting between Muammar Gaddafi's forces and Libyan insurgents raged yesterday across swaths of western Libya, with casualties reported in Zawiyah where rebels launched an offensive after a two-month lull.
Aside from in the port of Zawiyah, battles were also being fought in rebel-held Zintan in the Berber mountains southwest of Tripoli, in nearby Yafran, and at Dafnia near Misrata, Libya's third city, rebel sources told AFP.
THbal fighters opposed to Gaddafi meanwhile clashed with his forces in the oasis city of Sabha, which until now had been untouched by the unrest sweeping the north African nation since a popular uprising against his four-decade authoritarian rule erupted mid-February.
The fresh wave of fighting comes as TUrkey said it has offered Gaddafi guar-
antees to leave Libya and Russian envoy Mikhail Margelov said he would soon visit Tripoli to try to find a solution to the conflict.
International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo, in an interview published yesterday, said meanwhile he hoped that Gaddafi "will be arrested" by his people in the coming weeks on crimes against humanity charges.
The fighting in Zawiyah, which follows more than two months of relative calm in the city of 250,000 people, began on Saturday, a source told AFP in the rebel capital Benghazi.
"Fighting that started yesterday between battalions loyal to Gaddafi and rebels from Zawiyah is continuing and causing very many casualties," the rebel source said, without elaborating.
Loyalist forces blocked the road to the Tunisian border to "prevent the flow of
refugees" from the town, located around 50 kilometreswest oflHpoli, he added.
Meanwhile, an AFP correspondent said Gaddafi's forces pounded the outskirts of rebel-held Zintan in the Berber mountains southwest oflHpoli.
Tensions was also high between Zintan and Yafran, a region bitterly contested by rebels and loyalist troops.
Fighting also erupted in Sabha, 800 kilometres by road south of Tripoli and a bastion of support for Gaddafi, the rebel National Transitional Council said.
The fighting in Sabha, with a population of some 100,000 people and home to an important military base, followed two days of anti-Gaddafi protests there, the statement said.
The rebels, who control most of eastern Libya as well as the port city of Misrata and a sprinkling of towns in the west, also reported fighting at Dafnia near Misrata on Saturday.