Ajdabiya - They were just gone. Three, four hours earlier. One of them did not have time to take out the ram that had just slain. Sharkah al-Mukasabi, the master of the sheepfold, said the soldier was in a hurry and it was too heavy. He had a gun, a backpack, and maybe a metal box stuffed with ammunition.
He could not take away the ram. You jumped on a truck overflowing with other soldiers, and disappeared. The retreat took place early in the morning. The light was still gray in the desert. It must have been seven. But the defenders of Ajdabiya had already begun to retreat into the night.
Because when Tarek, my guide, I woke up to tell me that Gaddafi were leaving was just before dawn. Tarek is a Shabab, a young fighter, and a friend had warned him by phone that he and his companions were entering the city. So, Tarek and I, we came to Ajdabiya, that the blood of slaughtered sheep still looked fresh.
It was a ghost town. Not a light on. For days there was no electricity. And no water. Doors and windows were closed. In case there was no sign of life. The population had reached from Benghazi and Tobruk days, or had camped in the desert a few miles. They do not meet anyone. The Shabab celebrated the capture of Ajdabiya on a road to Brega, outside the town, firing air-ending bursts of Kalashnikov rifles and even a rocket that exploded was a disturbing noise.
Sporadic gunfire in neighborhoods where the houses are more dense revealed a manhunt not too distressed. He then said that they had been dug out thirteen Gaddafi nascostisi not to follow the retreating comrades. Maybe late. However, most deserters snipers. (Among them, it seems, a general).
It was easy to see how things went. How was restored after two weeks Ajdabiya, before which the Shabab had silted up, unable to move forward. The coalition air raids began Friday night. They hit hard and accurately. I counted at least twenty tanks pierced by missiles fired from Tornado I do not know if, or Mirages Rafales.
But carcasses of armored vehicles, black smoke, there were certainly many more. And then there were crumpled cars and trucks, with wheels in the air and their bodies, even their coal-black, on the side. It was that long to pick up the air attack on Gaddafi, who blocked the road to Brega, Ras Lanuf, Sirte, Misurata and then finally Tripoli.
Now a barrier has fallen. The first. And it was important. But there are a thousand kilometers. One of the men collected the bodies was burned in a loud voice a rough, gruesome accounts. Gaddafi's troops had counted forty dead. But there should be more. A hundred. When I went to the hospital there was only one civilian injured, and a doctor has assured me that the soldiers of Gaddafi wounded were on their way to Benghazi, in one hundred and sixty kilometers from here.
There are important details. The city being empty, or very few remaining inhabitants, missiles fired by coalition aircraft did not run the risk of civilian casualties. It could happen, however. But the planes have taken in the full military vehicles, armored or not armored. They have wasted ammunition.
Centered close to the targets were very rare dents fruitless. Wrong. Or you could see the buildings. The houses there were not even scratching the bullets, which are inevitable in an urban battle, when shooting street by street, house by house. It is thus clear that after the air raids the Shabab have not started fighting in the city, but that Gaddafi, after losing their tanks, have seen fit to leave.
They no longer had the superiority of means enabling him to hold off the insurgents. And then with arms and baggage were saved they beat a retreat. You should not have been a stampede because they have left behind the material that leaves a troop escaping. The picturesque Shabab, enthusiastic and courageous, but ill-armed and disorganized that they could retake the city's French and British planes had made accessible.
There are important details. Because they reveal the effectiveness of the no-fly zone, which, as applied, is in fact an operation supporting the rebels in Libya, free, full of good intentions but poor in resources. Shabab's not there would never be able to regain their occupied cities in recent weeks by Gaddafi.
What happened to Ajdabiya in the last hours, shows that the planes of the coalition may open the way for. For Gaddafi's retreat Ajdabiya is more than a severe defeat. Private aviation and armored vehicles vulnerable, his troops are obviously outdated. Also proved to be unwise, or poorly trained, because the Russian-made tanks were hit when they were exposed.
Asphalt or roadside in the desert, the squares, that is exposed to the air strikes. Excellent, easy, target. The impunity of Gaddafi's over. They are no longer in comparison with boys armed with Kalashnikovs. And the no-fly zone as applied has proved efficient. In the last hours would be too busy Brega, a town about eighty miles from Ajdabiya.
If the news is correct, it remains Ras Lanuf, a few kilometers. The road is long. But Libya, meanwhile, can breathe free. It has taken courage. Benghazi not feel the breath of Gaddafi on her neck. And as long as coalition aircraft flying in the sky Libyan feel safe. 
He could not take away the ram. You jumped on a truck overflowing with other soldiers, and disappeared. The retreat took place early in the morning. The light was still gray in the desert. It must have been seven. But the defenders of Ajdabiya had already begun to retreat into the night.
Because when Tarek, my guide, I woke up to tell me that Gaddafi were leaving was just before dawn. Tarek is a Shabab, a young fighter, and a friend had warned him by phone that he and his companions were entering the city. So, Tarek and I, we came to Ajdabiya, that the blood of slaughtered sheep still looked fresh.
It was a ghost town. Not a light on. For days there was no electricity. And no water. Doors and windows were closed. In case there was no sign of life. The population had reached from Benghazi and Tobruk days, or had camped in the desert a few miles. They do not meet anyone. The Shabab celebrated the capture of Ajdabiya on a road to Brega, outside the town, firing air-ending bursts of Kalashnikov rifles and even a rocket that exploded was a disturbing noise.
Sporadic gunfire in neighborhoods where the houses are more dense revealed a manhunt not too distressed. He then said that they had been dug out thirteen Gaddafi nascostisi not to follow the retreating comrades. Maybe late. However, most deserters snipers. (Among them, it seems, a general).
It was easy to see how things went. How was restored after two weeks Ajdabiya, before which the Shabab had silted up, unable to move forward. The coalition air raids began Friday night. They hit hard and accurately. I counted at least twenty tanks pierced by missiles fired from Tornado I do not know if, or Mirages Rafales.
But carcasses of armored vehicles, black smoke, there were certainly many more. And then there were crumpled cars and trucks, with wheels in the air and their bodies, even their coal-black, on the side. It was that long to pick up the air attack on Gaddafi, who blocked the road to Brega, Ras Lanuf, Sirte, Misurata and then finally Tripoli.
Now a barrier has fallen. The first. And it was important. But there are a thousand kilometers. One of the men collected the bodies was burned in a loud voice a rough, gruesome accounts. Gaddafi's troops had counted forty dead. But there should be more. A hundred. When I went to the hospital there was only one civilian injured, and a doctor has assured me that the soldiers of Gaddafi wounded were on their way to Benghazi, in one hundred and sixty kilometers from here.
There are important details. The city being empty, or very few remaining inhabitants, missiles fired by coalition aircraft did not run the risk of civilian casualties. It could happen, however. But the planes have taken in the full military vehicles, armored or not armored. They have wasted ammunition.
Centered close to the targets were very rare dents fruitless. Wrong. Or you could see the buildings. The houses there were not even scratching the bullets, which are inevitable in an urban battle, when shooting street by street, house by house. It is thus clear that after the air raids the Shabab have not started fighting in the city, but that Gaddafi, after losing their tanks, have seen fit to leave.
They no longer had the superiority of means enabling him to hold off the insurgents. And then with arms and baggage were saved they beat a retreat. You should not have been a stampede because they have left behind the material that leaves a troop escaping. The picturesque Shabab, enthusiastic and courageous, but ill-armed and disorganized that they could retake the city's French and British planes had made accessible.
There are important details. Because they reveal the effectiveness of the no-fly zone, which, as applied, is in fact an operation supporting the rebels in Libya, free, full of good intentions but poor in resources. Shabab's not there would never be able to regain their occupied cities in recent weeks by Gaddafi.
What happened to Ajdabiya in the last hours, shows that the planes of the coalition may open the way for. For Gaddafi's retreat Ajdabiya is more than a severe defeat. Private aviation and armored vehicles vulnerable, his troops are obviously outdated. Also proved to be unwise, or poorly trained, because the Russian-made tanks were hit when they were exposed.
Asphalt or roadside in the desert, the squares, that is exposed to the air strikes. Excellent, easy, target. The impunity of Gaddafi's over. They are no longer in comparison with boys armed with Kalashnikovs. And the no-fly zone as applied has proved efficient. In the last hours would be too busy Brega, a town about eighty miles from Ajdabiya.
If the news is correct, it remains Ras Lanuf, a few kilometers. The road is long. But Libya, meanwhile, can breathe free. It has taken courage. Benghazi not feel the breath of Gaddafi on her neck. And as long as coalition aircraft flying in the sky Libyan feel safe.
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