ELEANOR HALL: To Libya now and Colonel Moamar Gaddafi ramped up his threats in another speech overnight, this one warning that he would arm the population and that thousands would die if the West intervened to support the uprising against him.
At the same time his military forces launched an attack aimed at retaking some of the opposition-held ground in the east of the country.
Opposition groups drove back the Gaddafi forces in the strategic oil town of Brega.
But despite reports that the Gaddafi attack involved aerial bombing Western powers dampened down expectations that they would impose a no-fly zone over Libya anytime soon.
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