Libyan military cease-fire
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The Libyan military on Sunday called for an immediate cease-fire, a day after U.S., British and French forces began to enforce a United Nations-mandated no-fly zone, an army spokesman said.
Earlier, heavy anti-aircraft fire could be seen being fired into the skies of Tripoli, though no allied fighter jets appeared to be approaching or attacking.
"The armed forces issued command to all military units to safeguard immediate cease-fire everywhere," Libyan spokesman Milad al Fuqhi said in a televised address.
Libyan ruler Moammar Gadhafi had called the allied nations bombing his country "terrorists."
There was violence across the country Sunday, with Gadhafi apparently shelling rebels in the west while allied airstrikes destroyed one of Gadhafi's convoys in the east, according to rebels. There were no immediate reports of whether the call for ceasefire had any quick effect.
As of Sunday night local time, the United States had fired a total of 124 Tomahawk missiles at Libya's air defense sites, Africa Command spokesman Vince Crawley told CNN.
Gadhafi had said the strikes were a confrontation between the Libyan people and "the new Nazis," and promised "a long-drawn war."
"You have proven to the world that you are not civilized, that you are terrorists -- animals attacking a safe nation that did nothing against you," Gadhafi had said in an earlier televised speech.
Gadhafi did not appear on screen during his address, leading CNN's Nic Robertson in Tripoli to speculate that the Libyan leader did not want to give the allies clues about his location.
Throughout the address, an image of a golden fist crushing a model plane that said "USA" filled the screen -- a monument in Tripoli to the 1986 American bombing of Libya, in which one U.S. plane was downed.
Earlier, heavy anti-aircraft fire could be seen being fired into the skies of Tripoli, though no allied fighter jets appeared to be approaching or attacking.
"The armed forces issued command to all military units to safeguard immediate cease-fire everywhere," Libyan spokesman Milad al Fuqhi said in a televised address.
Libyan ruler Moammar Gadhafi had called the allied nations bombing his country "terrorists."
There was violence across the country Sunday, with Gadhafi apparently shelling rebels in the west while allied airstrikes destroyed one of Gadhafi's convoys in the east, according to rebels. There were no immediate reports of whether the call for ceasefire had any quick effect.
As of Sunday night local time, the United States had fired a total of 124 Tomahawk missiles at Libya's air defense sites, Africa Command spokesman Vince Crawley told CNN.
Gadhafi had said the strikes were a confrontation between the Libyan people and "the new Nazis," and promised "a long-drawn war."
"You have proven to the world that you are not civilized, that you are terrorists -- animals attacking a safe nation that did nothing against you," Gadhafi had said in an earlier televised speech.
Gadhafi did not appear on screen during his address, leading CNN's Nic Robertson in Tripoli to speculate that the Libyan leader did not want to give the allies clues about his location.
Throughout the address, an image of a golden fist crushing a model plane that said "USA" filled the screen -- a monument in Tripoli to the 1986 American bombing of Libya, in which one U.S. plane was downed.
