2011年4月9日星期六

Kadhafi urges rebel Forces with an attack on a key City - New York Times

AJDABIYA, the Libya - Military Forces loyal to colonel Muammar el-Gaddafi attack the outer door of Ajdabiya Saturday, bringing the front line of the battle with the forces of Libyan opposition at the door of this strategically critical rebel city.

The forces of colonel Gaddafi began the attack Saturday morning with the dams of rockets and artillery fire in the city, in a more determined than the battles attack course of these last days. Smoke could be seen from central parts of Ajdabiya, and at noon, physicians began to evacuate the hospital room, said rebel fighters.

In early afternoon, the vehicles of the rebels have been seen leaving the city, North to Highway around Benghazi, horns honking. A rebel shouted vehicles on their passage: "the forces of Qathafi arrive!" Go! Go! Go!

Another rebel said that veterans of the colonel took the outer door and a small group of their vehicles was roaming the city, although soldiers seem unable to enter in force in the city.

Rebel vehicles gathered approximately 10 miles from Ajdabiya and evening that they were flowing back into the city, where they seem to be able to maintain control.

Yet once, NATO air strikes is entered into the battle game - at least a large mushroom cloud rose from the area where the pro-Qathafi forces were barraging the city. But once the air campaign of the allies could not prevent military colonel supporting the rebels, as was the case during a week of fighting that saw the ragged opposition forces losing bought key on the main coastal roadincluding the city of Brega.

Although the air strikes were private forces pro-Qathafi of much of their heavy armoured vehicles, the rebels do not have to match the same level of small units. In testimony before Congress a week ago, Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates described rebel leaders as "disparate, disaggregated" and noted that poorly trained fighters were in a State to be able to take advantage of the effects of the air campaign allies.

The air strikes have worked against the rebels sometimes, also, as Thursday when the forces of NATO, apparently not aware that the rebels were operating heavy armoured personnel carriers in the region, hit one of their convoys, killing at least four people. NATO officials have expressed their regrets.

Benghazi, international diplomats have been meeting in private with rebel leaders, including General Abdul Fattah Younes, the Commander of the rebel army, who appeared tired and downbeat it left meetings early in the afternoon.

Kareem Fahim contributed reports from Benghazi in Libya.


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