LIVE Libyan Unrest: July 19, 2011

We are tracking the latest developments to keep you updated on the situation on the ground. There are interactive maps located in the Protest map page to keep up with the latest movements. Also check out the featured twitters on the sidebar. On the Go? Follow us on Twitter @Feb17Libya for the Live updates and discussion. All updates are in Libyan local time (GMT+2)
11:00am: Gaddafi regime denies they have been defeated in Brega, after most of their troops have been driven out of the city by Libyan revolutionaries.
10:00am: Former Libyan foreign minister Abdurahman Shalgam has admitted the Libyan government was involved in the Lockerbie bombing but said for the first time it was part of a wider conspiracy. In the interview with Al-Hayat, a Saudi-backed newspaper, he admitted that the Libyan security services had carried out the terrorist attack on a Berlin nightclub used by American troops in 1986, which sparked the American bombing of Tripoli the same year.
He also said that the regime had ordered the explosion which brought down a French airliner over Niger in 1989 which killed 171, wrongly thinking that a Libyan dissident, Mohammed al-Megrief, was on board. As in the case of the Lockerbie bombing a year earlier, the disaster was caused by explosives packed into a suitcase in the hold.
7:27am: U.S. officials have met with representatives of Muammar Gaddafi to deliver a message that the embattled Libyan leader must go, a State Department official said on Tuesday.
The meeting was held “to deliver a clear and firm message that the only way to move forward is for Gaddafi to step down,” the U.S. official said.
“This was not a negotiation. It was the delivery of a message,” the official said in a statement issued in New Delhi, where Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is on an official visit.
The meeting took place on Saturday and involved Assistant Secretary of State Jeff Feltman and two other American officials, said a senior U.S. official, who declined to say where the meeting occurred or who represented the Gaddafi government. Read full story here.
7:00am: NATO forces destroyed a radar tower at the Tripoli International Airport in the early hours of the morning Monday because it was being used to target its planes, the alliance said.
Libyan officials countered that the radar system was not used for military purposes.
4:37am: Libyan rebels pray at the frontline, 60km west of Ajdabiyah July 18

4:00am: Libyan opposition leader said Monday that contracts between other countries and the Libyan government signed before the internal strife will be respected.
Mustafa Abdul Jalil, head of the rebel National Transitional Council (NTC), made the pledge in an interview aired on Russia Today television.
“I would like to assure all states… that we respect the law and the international conventions and charters, and deem all agreements and contracts, signed by the previous government, as lawful if they have nothing to do with corrupt schemes,” he said.
Jalil promised that the opposition, if in power, would try to accomplish “even greater projects.”
But he clarified that some adjustments to the agreements and contracts are still possible “depending on the global economic and financial situation.”
On Friday, the Libya Contact Group meeting in Istanbul recognized the NTC as the sole and legitimate representative of the country’s people until the creation of a new interim authority.
But Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Monday his country refused to recognize the NTC as Libya’s legitimate government.