An anti-Gadhafi fighter checks an identification paper as he mans the last checkpoint 1 km fromthe northern besieged city of Bani Walid Sept 14, 2011.
Sept 14 - Following are the latest political and military developments inthe Libyan crisis.
* French President Nicolas Sarkozy is planning a trip to Libya on Thursday, the Frenchmagazine Marianne reported, in what would be the first visit by a foreign head of state since thetoppling of Muammar Gaddafi.
* The European Union is concerned about reports of extra-judicial killings and arbitrarydetentions by both sides in the Libyan war and especially by the victimisation of sub-SaharanAfricans, a statement said on Wednesday.
* Fighters loyal to Libya's new rulers will resort to heavy weapons to capture a desert outpostheld by Gadhafi's forces if needed, a military commander said on Wednesday, urging civiliansto flee.
* A senior U.S. envoy, visiting Tripoli on Wednesday to show support for Libya's new leaders,said they were getting the country's many armed groups under control and would not end updominated by Islamist factions.
* Gadhafi himself has not been seen in public since June. His fugitive spokesman, MoussaIbrahim, speaking on a satellite phone, told Reuters the 69-year-old leader was still in Libya, ingood spirits and gathering his forces for a fightback.
* NATO said it conducted 122 air sorties on Tuesday, 44 of them strike sorties to identify andhit targets. It said key targets hit included:
-- in the vicinity of Sirte: one command and control node, one multiple rocket launcher, two anti-aircraft guns, one armed vehicle, four radar systems
-- near Waddan: seven anti-aircraft guns#
-- in the area of Zillah: one armed vehicle
* Since NATO took command of air strikes on March 31, its aircraft have conducted 22,578sorties including 8,471 strike sorties. NATO members participating in air strikes include France,Britain, Canada, Denmark, Belgium, Italy and the United States.
* Fourteen ships under NATO command are patrolling the central Mediterranean Sea toenforce a U.N. arms embargo. On
Tuesday, 15 vessels were hailed to determine destination and cargo. Six were boarded butnone diverted.
* A total of 2,619 vessels have been hailed, 281 boarded and 11 diverted since the start ofthe arms embargo.
A camel is seen next to anti-Gadhafi fighters near the town of Abu Grein, about 160 km (99.4miles) west of Sirte, one of Muammar Gadhafi's last remaining strongholds, Sept 14, 2011.
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