Friday, April 8, 2011

The NATO air strikes kill 50 rebels Libyans

Algiers .- The NATO air strikes have caused today killed at least 50 rebels near the Libyan city of Brega, east of Tripoli, according to the television channel Al Arabiya. UAE chain, citing security sources, said that many other members of antigadafistas forces were injured in these bombings. Al Arabiya did not specify the circumstances of that appears to be a new error of NATO air forces in less than a week.

In turn, the Qatari Al-Jazeera network said that these bombings caused only the death of 5 rebels, while the BBC Arabic reported 13 dead near Ajadabiya. On Saturday, another 17 members of the rebellion that circulated to board a bus for the route between Brega to Ajdabiya were killed in another attack by NATO aircraft.

The oil port city and its surroundings are Brega after about a week the scene of heavy fighting between forces loyal to Colonel Muammar al-Gaddafi and the revolutionary troops. Four days ago, the rebels launched an offensive to control this location and managed to take the East and its oil port, but 24 hours later had to retreat just to the edge of the nearby city of Ajdabiya due to a strong counterattack forces Gaddafi.

This morning the head of the military wing of the Libyan National Transitional Council (CNT), General Abdelfatah Yunes to Abidi, had told the network Al Jazer that the rebels had received substantial human and material resources and reinforcements they were about to deliver "a great battle "to defeat the forces loyal to Qadhafi.

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