Libya's rebels have captured the towns of Brega and Ajdabiyah from forces loyal to Colonel Muammar Gaddafi after advancing about 80 miles in just 24 hours.

Libyan Rebels Push West To Capture Brega

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 (c) Sky News 2011Libyan Rebels Retake Town Of Ajdabiyah

The rebels were delighted, firing into the air and celebrating on the burnt-out tanks of Gaddafi's forces. Just 1.5 miles outside Brega they were mustering to try and make another attack further south.On the road down from Ajdabiyah to Brega were trailers full of ammunition, tanks, Stalin's Organs (multiple rocket launchers) and other equipment destroyed by coalition airstrikes.

Aircraft were overhead during the day but there were no attacks because much of Gaddafi's hardware appears to have been destroyed and his troops had retreated. Brega, from where a great deal of the oil and natural gas exported by Libya is pumped  to Italy and elsewhere, and Ajdabiyah had both been held by the rebels in the early days of the uprising but were lost to Gaddafi's better-armed forces. But it appears that a couple of days of airstrikes by French and British warplanes, including Tornados, have crushed their resistance.

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