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25th August 2011, 07:50
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A revolutionary commander in Libya says loyalists of Libya's embattled ruler Muammar Gaddafi are surrounding the opposition-held town of Zuwarah west of the capital Tripoli.
Colonel Abdu Salem said that fighters in Zuwarah have called for help from Zintan and other places which are under control of anti-regime forces, AFP reported on Wednesday.
Salem, the coordinator of military movements for the Zintan region, said they were making efforts to deploy reinforcement to the besieged town.
Colonel Juma Brahim, a spokesman for fighters in Zintan, said they had sent all their forces to Tripoli and could provide no help.
Zuwara guards the road from Tripoli to Ras Jdir on the border with Tunisia, which is also under control of pro-Gaddafi forces.
Fighting between Gaddafi's loyalists and fighters raged on near the Bab al-Aziziya compound which was captured by anti-regime forces a day earlier.
Battle spread to the nearby Abu Slim area with pro-Gaddafi forces having the upper hand in the fighting. Fighters said they were determined to drive regime forces out of the area.
Fighters said there were dozens of pro-regime snipers around Bab al-Aziziya, forcing the people to stay in homes.
Gaddafi said early Wednesday that he had left his fortified compound in a “tactical withdrawal” after the place had been destroyed in NATO airstrikes.
“Bab al-Aziziya was nothing but a heap of rubble after it was the target of 64 NATO missiles and we withdrew from it for tactical reasons,” a message on the website of a TV station headed by his son, Seif al-Islam, said.
Gaddafi urged the residents of Tripoli, the tribes, and the elderly to take to streets and “cleanse Tripoli of rats.”
source
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/195617.html
A revolutionary commander in Libya says loyalists of Libya's embattled ruler Muammar Gaddafi are surrounding the opposition-held town of Zuwarah west of the capital Tripoli.
Colonel Abdu Salem said that fighters in Zuwarah have called for help from Zintan and other places which are under control of anti-regime forces, AFP reported on Wednesday.
Salem, the coordinator of military movements for the Zintan region, said they were making efforts to deploy reinforcement to the besieged town.
Colonel Juma Brahim, a spokesman for fighters in Zintan, said they had sent all their forces to Tripoli and could provide no help.
Zuwara guards the road from Tripoli to Ras Jdir on the border with Tunisia, which is also under control of pro-Gaddafi forces.
Fighting between Gaddafi's loyalists and fighters raged on near the Bab al-Aziziya compound which was captured by anti-regime forces a day earlier.
Battle spread to the nearby Abu Slim area with pro-Gaddafi forces having the upper hand in the fighting. Fighters said they were determined to drive regime forces out of the area.
Fighters said there were dozens of pro-regime snipers around Bab al-Aziziya, forcing the people to stay in homes.
Gaddafi said early Wednesday that he had left his fortified compound in a “tactical withdrawal” after the place had been destroyed in NATO airstrikes.
“Bab al-Aziziya was nothing but a heap of rubble after it was the target of 64 NATO missiles and we withdrew from it for tactical reasons,” a message on the website of a TV station headed by his son, Seif al-Islam, said.
Gaddafi urged the residents of Tripoli, the tribes, and the elderly to take to streets and “cleanse Tripoli of rats.”
source
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/195617.html