Monday, March 14, 2011

Misrata bombing, isolated from the rebel-held territory between Tripoli and Sirte


Gadafista artillery bombarded residential areas in Misrata
 
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Mar 14, 2011, 09:18 AM | Cairo (EFE) .- The brigades have had gadafistas Misrata bombing, isolated from the rebel-held territory between Tripoli and Sirte, and tonight powerful explosions were heard in the center population as yesterday reached residential areas farthest from the heart of the city. 

Said Thursday a neighbor of Misrata, whose identity is not revealed as a precaution EFE, the bombing was indiscriminate, while victims of the attack suffered only minor cuts as a result of the explosions in glass and walls of houses. 

Today, according to Al Jazeera, the city of Al Zauara, the last important town before the border with Tunisia (west) was also subjected to artillery fire in an area that apparently forces had managed to quell gadafistas with extreme hardness outbreaks of revolt. 

Southwest of Tripoli, the brigades gadafistas subjected to intense artillery fire, mortars and tanks in Al resistance Zauiya militia, who succumbed last week in a desperate bid to stop making appeased 'Square, the epicenter of fighting. 

As indicated by Al Jazeera, gadafistas troops attacked today by one of the hits the city, which until now had no reports of fighting or organized armed resistance. 

To the east, in the main arena of combat, aviation loyal to Colonel Muammar al-Gaddafi today continued its offensive, which has submitted the rebel resistance throughout the coastline, and bombed the city of Ajdabiya, last town before the Benghazi rebel capital, and also the main hub of eastern DRC. 

The air strikes were concentrated in this city that yesterday Briga defenders retreated, about 70 miles west. 

The revolutionaries have seen air superiority, deploying artillery and maritime support in advance of the troops has been gadafistas break the militant resistance. 

Gradually, with apparent lack of brigade on the ground, have been recovered gadafistas oil enclaves Brega and Ras Lanuf (center-west), where rebel spokesmen insist from Benghazi to keep fighting, according to a correspondent in this city Qatari channel. 

However, the rebel military commander has mobilized at least part of their few pieces of artillery and tanks to prepare the defense of Ajdaviya with trenches and makeshift barriers to stop the gadafistas, that if they uphold the position would dominate or direct access to routes connecting with the rebel capital and the border with Egypt. 

All are aware that this enclave road is essential to determine the fate of the rebels and popular rebellion, which began on Feb. 16 with a demonstration in Benghazi, which broke the day after clashes in the rest of the country and the violent repression gadafista which led to the popular rebellion. 

The rebels triumphed at the beginning of the popular uprising in the east and isolated pockets in the West as Al-suppressed and-Zauiya and Misrata, isolated from Tripoli to Sirte, Gaddafi's hometown stronghold and important military supply base.