The rebel advance towards the city of Sirte (center) seems to have stalled today in the oil enclave of Ras Lanuf (Eastern), which have left dozens of families bound for Benghazi, Libya's second city and main rebel stronghold of the opposition. "Do not follow progress, stay here, we must protect the oil," he repeated today the speakers of a car at the checkpoint of the militia at the gates of Ras Lanuf, where the faithful aircraft bombed Gadhafi several times to scare the militants.
At least three times the anti-aircraft batteries of the rebel position unsuccessfully attempted to shoot down planes that attacked first several miles of the position, then five and finally to less than one thousand feet from where concentrated around two hundreds of young militants. With each explosion the same ritual: shouting, firing anti-aircraft guns, fled in panic into the desert and the rumble of the dusty explosion.
Then again the inexperienced rebels unite and begin to celebrate the explosion has not fallen on them firing air pistols and machine guns and singing patriotic songs and against Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. "They are like children with new clothes on a holiday," says Ibrahim al Jodeiri, a former soldier of 50 who left the Army three years ago after suffering a thrombosis after the age 21 years of service.
"No one addressed to no one, each group does what you want, skip forward and back, shoot or not, have guns, are their own and do with them what they want," said Ahmed Fathi, who has also spent four years in military service ensuring that now has joined the rebel ranks. However, it insists that we must recognize that the need has caused many have learned in just 24 hours to handle weapons.
Both Fathi as Jodeiri, located at the border of Brega, 120 miles east of Ras Lanuf, believe that the intention of the brigades of Gaddafi is nothing to scare the rebels. "I do not want a massacre of civilians, there are also journalists. What you want is not step up, step," said Fathi. Only on Sunday, seven rebels were killed and 55 wounded in fighting between Ras Lanuf and Ben Jawad, a town is taken by the rebels last Saturday and recovered this morning by Gaddafi's forces after the rebels have withdrawn.
In addition, the fighting and the fear that the situation is stuck in the oil enclave, has pushed many families to leave the town towards Benghazi, the second largest city in the hands of the rebels. In the rebel-Ras Lanuf families raised their fingers in victory between shots in the air of the militants who did not take any calls from the microphones to save ammunition.
However, neither admitted families fleeing the fighting. "We have some days off and we go on vacation to Benghazi, but then we come back," said a parent with his wife and two children mounted on a car packed with personal belongings. And a few miles from the front line, some families away from the fervor of the combatants who are joining the offensive in a steady trickle, acknowledged that the situation in Ras Lanuf was worrying.
The rebels were convinced that Ben Jawad recovered, although, according to Gaddafi has placed snipers on rooftops. Then throw on Sirte, Gaddafi's home town, which many consider to be the ultimate battle. "Sirte is a barracks, have all kinds of light and heavy weapons, planes, missiles, many people will die there," says Jodeiri ensuring that served two years in this town.
While on the Eastern Front continues what some have called the game of "cat and mouse" between Gaddafi and militia brigades in the west, the city of Misrata in the hands of the opposition and located between Sirte and Tripoli, still under siege by regime forces. In Al Zauiya, 92 miles southwest of Tripoli, we live the same scenario as in Misrata.
Fourth consecutive day today by the so-called "revolutionaries" have resisted a new artillery attack gadafistas forces, who insist the city recover. 
At least three times the anti-aircraft batteries of the rebel position unsuccessfully attempted to shoot down planes that attacked first several miles of the position, then five and finally to less than one thousand feet from where concentrated around two hundreds of young militants. With each explosion the same ritual: shouting, firing anti-aircraft guns, fled in panic into the desert and the rumble of the dusty explosion.
Then again the inexperienced rebels unite and begin to celebrate the explosion has not fallen on them firing air pistols and machine guns and singing patriotic songs and against Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. "They are like children with new clothes on a holiday," says Ibrahim al Jodeiri, a former soldier of 50 who left the Army three years ago after suffering a thrombosis after the age 21 years of service.
"No one addressed to no one, each group does what you want, skip forward and back, shoot or not, have guns, are their own and do with them what they want," said Ahmed Fathi, who has also spent four years in military service ensuring that now has joined the rebel ranks. However, it insists that we must recognize that the need has caused many have learned in just 24 hours to handle weapons.
Both Fathi as Jodeiri, located at the border of Brega, 120 miles east of Ras Lanuf, believe that the intention of the brigades of Gaddafi is nothing to scare the rebels. "I do not want a massacre of civilians, there are also journalists. What you want is not step up, step," said Fathi. Only on Sunday, seven rebels were killed and 55 wounded in fighting between Ras Lanuf and Ben Jawad, a town is taken by the rebels last Saturday and recovered this morning by Gaddafi's forces after the rebels have withdrawn.
In addition, the fighting and the fear that the situation is stuck in the oil enclave, has pushed many families to leave the town towards Benghazi, the second largest city in the hands of the rebels. In the rebel-Ras Lanuf families raised their fingers in victory between shots in the air of the militants who did not take any calls from the microphones to save ammunition.
However, neither admitted families fleeing the fighting. "We have some days off and we go on vacation to Benghazi, but then we come back," said a parent with his wife and two children mounted on a car packed with personal belongings. And a few miles from the front line, some families away from the fervor of the combatants who are joining the offensive in a steady trickle, acknowledged that the situation in Ras Lanuf was worrying.
The rebels were convinced that Ben Jawad recovered, although, according to Gaddafi has placed snipers on rooftops. Then throw on Sirte, Gaddafi's home town, which many consider to be the ultimate battle. "Sirte is a barracks, have all kinds of light and heavy weapons, planes, missiles, many people will die there," says Jodeiri ensuring that served two years in this town.
While on the Eastern Front continues what some have called the game of "cat and mouse" between Gaddafi and militia brigades in the west, the city of Misrata in the hands of the opposition and located between Sirte and Tripoli, still under siege by regime forces. In Al Zauiya, 92 miles southwest of Tripoli, we live the same scenario as in Misrata.
Fourth consecutive day today by the so-called "revolutionaries" have resisted a new artillery attack gadafistas forces, who insist the city recover.
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