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Libya: NATO openly backing, commanding and controling all anti Gaddafi ground troops trying to take Brega gu.com/p/3vjmt/tw
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Libyan rebels push towards Brega backed by Nato air strikes
Use of alliance warplanes in what amounts to a combat support role likely to sharpen criticism of Nato operation
Libyan rebels backed by powerful Nato air strikes fought their way into parts of the government-held oil town of Brega on Monday in one of their most ambitious offensives of the war so far.The attack, launched on Thursday, has seen rebel units push towards the town from the east, north, and south, with house-to-house fighting reported by Radio Misrata in New Brega, a dormitory suburb 18 miles east of the main town. Rebel units are being aided by some of the most sustained Nato bombing yet seen, amid claims that forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi were retreating west towards the town of Ras Lanuf. Nato reported 32 military vehicles, including tanks, rocket launchers and armoured personnel carriers, destroyed in three days of intensive air strikes.
