Friday, November 18, 2011

NTC fighters enter Sirte

imageNational Transitional Council prepare their weapons fighters before their fighting in the city of Sirte on Saturday. ­ - AFP photo

Agence France-Presse. Sirte

Home town in the Gulf of Sirte from the East joined hundreds of fighters for Libya's new rulers on Sunday, when the city for a second straight day hit NATO planes in Muammar al-Gaddafi.

Flash V for victory signs, the fighters moved in Sirte in pickup trucks and larger trucks, supported by three artillery tanks, as they shouted "Allahu Akbar" (God is greatest), an AFP correspondent said.

Other fighters of the Transitional National Council, could their West of the Mediterranean city, as deadly clashes raged also faithful in the Western oasis of Ghadames, close to the Algerian border.

And West of Sirte, NTC, forces outside Bani Walid mounted a new attack on the city, the only other remaining Gaddafi jump.

As they rolled by Sirte of the Eastern Gate, rushed two ambulances with sirens on fire, and other NTC fighters emerged from the bastion of Gaddafi, where they said there was small arms firefights.

"We struggle with Kalashnikovs and small arms to the city centre," said Mar'ee Saleh Ali Hassan Jabar Brigade.

"We are on Gaddafi's men raise, but her return fire is not very strong," he said, when he finished the Eastern Gate.

Saleh added, the ' NATO several strikes carried out today. I have it. "

Many of the pickup trucks in the city carried out said food and water supplies, as well as mattresses, an indication that the fighters were to positions in Sirte, the correspondent.

West of Sirte NTC could say but forces her, that they do not, you launch a new attack in Sirte allow statements of NATO had received on the implementation of transactions.

On the political front were NTC Chief Mustafa Abdel Jalil, said an interim Government next week would be known and that 'weapons banned Gaddafi International' now under his control.

Earlier, said one of the fighters in Sirte of the Eastern Gate stationed, that fighters were looking for land mines.

' We fear that forces have buried Gaddafi landmines on the outskirts of the city. So we are out. So far today it is quiet after heavy yesterday confrontations, "Hameed said frontline fighter Abdul.

Fighters who stationed to stay told another AFP correspondent, what, had said of the NATO coalition put on Sunday and retention of a planned new attack on the City West of Sirte.

NATO aircraft launched at least a dozen air raids to Sirte on Sunday morning, said correspondent.

On Saturday NATO planes exploded 29 armed vehicles, a brand position, two command and control nodes and three ammunition storage facilities in the area of the Alliance said in an operational update.

On Saturday, fighter Sirte what apparently came to a pincer movement from the South and East.

"Our troops went seven kilometres through the eastern gate and it sometimes heavy clashes with Gaddafi was forces sporadically," said Commander Mohammed al-Marimi Fakriddin-Sallabi-Brigade.

Misurata military Council spokesman Abdel Ibrahim said seven NTC fighters killed and wounded 145.

The fighters used tanks and pickups mounted roadblocks with flak delete Gaddafi forces and drove towards the city of Sirte, building their own defense in advanced positions.

On a Beach Road, surrounded by craters and pock-marked buildings struck a 106 mm anti-tank Cannon Gaddafi repeated positions, supported by a barrage of mortar fire and multiple rocket launchers.

A Sirte residents who managed to escape said early on Sunday, fighting at 19: 00 on Saturday at waned.

' There are African mercenaries roaming throughout the city. You are in houses with flak in the trigger a ' at the western edge of Sirte, he said, refusing to give his name for security reasons.

He also said he saw Gaddafi's son Mutassim twice - once in a command in a hospital basement, in the last three weeks.

Front line fighter in Sirte have said repeatedly that the Mutassim is perforated in the southern suburbs.

Saturday's attack came after reports of a rapid deterioration of the humanitarian situation in the city of about 75,000.

NATO troops in Gaddafi forces met, after reports of Sirte "Executions, hostage-taking and the calculated targeting of individuals, families and communities in the city" was a coalition statement said.

The attack on Ghadames, said Tripoli, came at dawn, at least eight NTC fighters killed and wounded 50, 600 km southwest of Muhandes Sirajeddin, Deputy Head of the Municipal Council.

"The attack began at 05: 30 (0330 GMT)." Around 100 Gaddafi Loyalists, including mercenaries, consisting of Algeria (border) and took the Tuareg groups to the fight, "he said."

Sirajeddin and two other residents, said that clashes there were still under way, in Ghadames, a UNESCO world cultural heritage and is home to the Roman ruins.

Heavy fighting also in Bani Walid, the only other remaining Pro-Gaddafi raged bastion, with NTC fighters under fire from within the city, an AFP correspondent said.

NTC Commander Omar Mukhtar said his men are "Bundling" but would attack not on Sunday.

"We are always ready," he said as five tanks at the front roll up an AFP correspondent.

NTC forces believe that Gaddafi best-known son Seif al-Islam, until in Bani Walid is perforated. "We know exactly where he is," Mukhtar said.

In the meantime, the Transitional Council Sunday said the remains of more than 1,700 prisoners who 1996 prison in a mass grave in the capital were found by warden Tripoli of notorious Abu Salim, a spokesman for the national.

"We found the place where these martyrs were buried," said Khalid Sharif, spokesman of the military Council of the NTC, adding of it was Beweis criminal acts ' by the Gaddafi regime.


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