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Gaddafi son declares allegiance to Islamists | World news | The Guardian

Something interesting here regarding the clear ambitions of the West and Libya?????:confused:

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Grauniad: Libya rebels claim Tripoli advance

Rebels opposed to the Gaddafi regime claim they are advancing on the capital on three fronts and meeting little resistance

Libyan rebels claim to be advancing on Tripoli on three fronts and meeting only sporadic resistance.

Thirty-five miles west of the city, television pictures appeared to confirm reports that they are in control of much of the town of Zawiya, including the coastal highway to the Tunisian border. Fifty miles to the south, opposition fighters say they have pushed out of the Nafusa mountains to capture Ghariyan, cutting one of only two main highways linking Tripoli to the rest of Libya. To the east, rebel forces in Misrata have this weekend completed their capture of Tawarga.

The attacks have been accompanied by heavy Nato air strikes with the alliance website reporting 51 military targets destroyed in three days of bombing.

An al-Jazeera report from inside Zawiya showed rebels apparently in control of streets and the coastal highway, countering claims from Tripoli that government units had retaken the town.

There was no independent confirmation of the capture of Ghariyan, but in Misrata, rebels said resistance by government forces to the east collapsed after a brief battle, allowing fighters to gain control of the neighbouring town of Tawarga. Pro-Gaddafi forces fled the town along with many civilians, abandoning vehicles and equipment including heavy artillery, with rebels further claiming that there were no enemy formations ahead.

"We left one road open, we watched them drive away down it," said rebel fighter Abdullah Maiteeg. He said the advance east from Misrata, which has claimed five rebel lives, had stopped because of concern that units might be mistaken for government forces by Nato jets.

In Tripoli, a spokesman insisted Zawiya was under government control but gave no further details.

Torygraph: Libya: Tripoli Brace's for Gadaffi's Final Curtain

Col Gaddafi fires scud missile at rebel territory as Nato braces itself for final violent showdown - Telegraph

Thought this was the sort of thing NATO would target early in the war?

If he's throwing Scuds around thats worrying. I hope to god they didn't manage to restart nerve gas production at Rabta. Using those missiles - loaded with chemicals - could be the last throw of a cornered animal. I knew some of the Germans at Imhausen Chemie who got jailed over setting up that plant and it was always claimed that production had stopped - but did it?
They were supposedly making soman and sarin as well as blister agents


Rabta

Libya Has Trouble Building the Most Deadly Weapons

Well we can be hopeful (and thankful) that the US and others got ALL of the Nuclear bits and pieces out, one less thing to worry about.

I wouldn't put anything past the Colonel.

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A cornered wounded animal is the most dangerous. One wants to hope he hasn't got any real nasty stuff and plays scorched earth. Or at least the underlings have enough sense not to go though with it.

Torygraph: Libya: RAF airstrikes sink boat filled with Gaddafi troops after refinery battle

The RAF sank a boat filled with Libyan troops loyal to Col Muammar Gaddafi in the final act of a fierce battle with rebel soldiers for the country’s last functioning oil refinery.

The intervention came at the culmination of a firefight that ended Col Gaddafi’s control of the Zawiyah facility, which lies just 30 miles west of the Libyan capital Tripoli.

Pro-Gaddafi forces had taken to the sea by boat after fighting a desperate rearguard battle for the refinery, the regime’s last source of fuel for its besieged capital.

A Ministry of Defence spokesman said they had commandeered a tug in an effort to regroup after a Nato strike destroyed their armed vehicles in the refinery.

“Although a challenging target, small and under way at sea, a direct hit was scored with a laser-guided Paveway bomb which sank the vessel,” Major Gen Nick Pope said.

The RAF delivered the final blow just as two senior officers boarded the ship from an inflatable........

Just like living in the UK now then. :rolleyes:

So the RAF has the last surface unit sinking..........nice one :ok:

Suppose the navy were too far away being 11.5nm, just inside the OA qualifying zone :}

is that the first British LGB to get a ship? I don't remember any others being mentioned earlier.
But of course they should have kept the Sea Eagle (and the aircraft to launch it...)

Didn't the RAF sink a couple of Libyan Navy other ships in the harbour a month or so ago ?

Not sure what weapons were used.

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I personally like Gaddafi. I find him quite modest, I mean he could have chosen any rank he likes in his armed forces, but was quite happy to settle for colonel.

Hats off to him.

Bombs...............

Perhaps, but if you were to investigate further you would have seen the ships were quite intact....sunk, but not disrupted that much..

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I suppose it beats the hell out of Holbeach and Donna Nook, but at what cost and what for?
We will live to regret this intervention.:*

Remember this is a good thing, we are protecting civilians, those troops we took out would have killed all those poor civilians at the refinery, which where coming at them with their civilian rpg's etc.

Or missiles!

Foldie:=

Before Sharky gets on here..............the ship sunk by the RAF could have been attacked more efficiently by SHARs.......blah blah.

There, I beat him to it.

Romeo Oscar Golf - There is tonnes of oil there ! At what stage does regret come into it? Not like its Zimbabwe where there is no oil !