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Summary US have frozen the assets of Muammar Gaddafi and have also ordered its warships to move closer to Libyan shores.
A spokesman of Pentagon told that Washington is also working with allies on imposing a possible no-fly zone over the country. While US Finance Department has frozen US$30 billion worth of Libyan assets, ramping up pressure on leader Muammar Gaddafi after calling on him to step aside. US President Barack Obama and UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Monday expressed concern about rising violence in the Libya. The Libyan regime has met the winds of change sweeping across the Middle East and North Africa with violence against its own citizens, and long-time leader Muammar Gaddafi lost legitimacy when he declared war on his people, Ban Ki-moon said. On the other side United Nations sanctions against Libya should make members of Muammar Gaddafis government think about the consequences of their actions, US Ambassador to the United Nations said on Monday. In the hardest-hitting U.S. denunciation yet of the Libyan leader, Rice said Gaddafi is slaughtering his own people, and called him delusional after the Libyan leader insisted, to various international media, that he was still beloved in his country and then denied there were demonstrations against him.It sounds just, frankly, delusional and when Gaddafi can laugh, in talking to American and international journalists, while he is slaughtering his own people, it only underscores how unfit he is to lead and how disconnected he is from reality, Rice stated. She also said that United States was involved in talks with NATO about the possibility of enacting a no-fly zone over Libya.
