- 1631: Report of a jet shot down near Ras Lanuf. "I saw with my own eyes a downed plane and two dead pilots... [still] strapped into seats," Ahmed Harram, an unarmed rebel supporter, told Reuters. "It was a fighter plane." 1627: With government tanks being thrown into the battle for Zawiya in such numbers, it may be worth knowing just how many Libya has. According to a 2009 estimate by London's International Institute for Strategic Studies, there were 2,025. 1618: Rebels are engaging with government forces at Bin Jawad, the BBC's Nick Springate reports from Ras Lanuf. 1608: Hussein, the Zawiya resident who has been updating the BBC about the situation there, says Gaddafi forces have not been able to take over the square despite their tanks. 1607: A doctor in Zawiya has told Sky News the city is being starved into submission, with supplies of food, fuel and medicine cut off. 1605: With Zawiya the focus of the conflict today, a few facts about it: the population is just under 300,000, making it Libya's fourth-largest city. It has one of the country's most important oil refineries.
