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Before launching their counter-attack, loyalist forces sent dozens of civilians into the hamlet to announce their imminent arrival,


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Rebels repulse attack by Gaddafi forces Imed Lamloum
July 25, 2011 - 3:09AM
AFP Forces loyal to Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi launched a counter-offensive on rebels in the southwest but were repulsed, after NATO warplanes blitzed military targets in the capital. An AFP correspondent reported that rebels on Sunday repelled an attack aimed at recapturing the desert hamlet of Gualish on the road to Tripoli, which loyalist forces lost to the insurgents in fierce fighting earlier this month. Rebels in Gualish said they had prevented regime forces from getting within a kilometre of the hamlet, and that they had been sent reinforcements from Zintan, the main rebel base in western Libya. Before launching their counter-attack, loyalist forces sent dozens of civilians into the hamlet to announce their imminent arrival, rebel witnesses told AFP. An AFP correspondent within earshot reported that two hours of intense fighting then took place. In the capital itself, Gaddafi's compound again came under NATO air attack. "In Tripoli there were two command and control nodes, two surface-to-air missile launchers and one anti-aircraft gun (hit)," a NATO official said from the mission's headquarters in Naples, Italy.


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Gadaffi soldiers use car loads of civilians human shields for a NATO decoy as they try to advance to town 
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