BREAKING: Colonel Pilot Ali Atiyya from Tripoli Miteega Airbase defects
This post is being constantly updated
All times are in Libyan local time GMT +2
All times are in Libyan local time GMT +2
15:26 Al Jazeera Arabic has played footage of Colonel Pilot Ali Atiyya in Miteega Air Base in Tripoli announcing his defection from the Gaddafi regime and fully joining the revolution15:19 Footage of Gaddafi forces striking revolutionaries in Ras Lanouf yesterday
14:24 Footage from last week Sunday 6th March showing Gaddafi’s Hamza battalion entering Misratah:
12:10 AFP A reporter says he watched dozens of revolutionaries pulling out of the coastal town of Brega, and heading for Ajdabiya after heavy shelling by Gaddafi’s forces.
12:08 @Libyan4life tweets “Reports of Heavy shelling and heavy aircraft on the city of Brega”
12:08 AFP Mobile phone communications are said to be cut in Benghazi for unknown reasons. It’s not known if other areas were affected.
11:51 State TV cites a military source saying that “Brega has been cleansed of armed gangs”
10:17 Al Jazeera‘s Nick Clark reports from Tobruk that, “The frontline is moving eastwards in favour of Gaddafi. But there is huge amount of resilience still, they still think they can see Gaddafi off without a doubt. They are all proclaiming that ultimately they will win.”
