AJDABYA - Before the metallic clang of an anti-aircraft battery, which in seconds download dozens of shots into the sky to the west. Then, in the distance, a more dull thud, and a few minutes later another blast muffled, with a jet fighter that disappeared in the clouds, immediately followed by a second burst of flak, violent, deafening.
Rise from the ground two plumes of gray smoke, now frayed by the wind. It happens at 16:45 at the checkpoint before the entrance to the town of Ajdabya, 170 kilometers south-west of Benghazi. It 's the first bombing of Muammar Gaddafi aviation forces against the insurgents that ten days ago they released the Cyrenaica from his fierce regime.
And 'the Colonel's first offensive against the people of eastern Libya, which has run Sunday, February 20 shrugged off a revolt with an unexpected and overwhelming oppression lasting 42 years. What is the purpose of the raid? The men who preside over the checkpoint tell us that three quarters of an hour before the fighters have already dropped two rockets at an ammunition dump, but they had already emptied.
Assistant to the case in this aggression air returning from Brega, miserable appendage of large oil terminals. We are left with the fact, Stephen mentioned, and with that of Sole24Ore, Roberto Bongiorni, we are the only journalists present, then the only way to tell it. A few kilometers before reaching the checkpoint, we learn of the first raid.
We decided then, once there, to get out to inform us. We find a dozen soldiers - if you can call it a gathering of truck drivers, school teachers, shepherds, bakers and students wearing a military uniform - busy around three anti-aircraft guns mounted on many pickups. Some seem to discuss what to do, others, meanwhile, fill the feeders with big bullets extracted from dark green wooden boxes.
What screams more is a very dark-skinned giant. Sweating profusely, and is the only one that has the appearance of a leader. Suddenly, jump behind the wheel of a pickup with surprising agility, starts off like a rally and scoured change the position of the vehicle, away from the other two.
He saw it all. The two planes. The rockets, their trajectories. Waving them out to others, which starts shooting wildly. Why this attack? And what do you hope to win, Gaddafi, in a few days after losing the entire Cyrenaica and other large regions of the country? It 's true, Colonel, we have explained the leaders of the revolt of Benghazi, still would have dozens of combat aircraft, but pilots would no longer willing to bomb their fellow Libyans.
Yesterday's attack seems to belie this belief, so far as to drive the planes were not quite mercenary pilots, African, or maybe Europe. One answer to why the air strikes yesterday gives us the El Sharif Idris, professor of Economics at the University of Garyounis Benghazi. El Sharif says: "After Ajdabya, and down to Brega and Ras Lanus, there are several terminals in the Sirt Oil Company, where it comes from oil and gas, where it is refined, and where it starts to Europe.
These platforms are all in the hands of insurgents, but they are still surrounded by pockets of pro-militia Gaddafi. If the rebellion succeeds in making a clean sweep of these militias, to finally become independent by means Cyrenaica and Tripoli can wait a physiological end of the Colonel.
So in that region that is still being fought, and Gaddafi does not hesitate to bomb planes with even the most remote villages. " We spoke of Brega: consists of a twenty-storey houses along a desert road, straight as a shot. Unable to go further in the direction of Sirte, the stronghold of the Colonel, 500 miles from Benghazi.
Do not you dare even the insurgents themselves, if not in groups and armed to the teeth. Two days ago, we have tried three freelance photojournalist, who were robbed, stripped naked and savagely beaten. Here they are the oil terminals. Li glimpse through a triple-wire fence, with its elegant houses for skilled workers, and white tanks filled with crude oil.
Until a few days ago, the entrance of each compound stands a large poster of the dictator of Tripoli, which now has remained a piece of oratory fez or a clenched fist outstretched upwards. Here is the last checkpoint of the insurgents. When we arrive, they are celebrating with the release of bursts of machine gun fire a couple of guys from the clutches of the Praetorian Guard colonel.
A few hours ago, we are told, came from Tobruz 85 soldiers. Before crossing the checkpoint, left their Kalashnikovs and wore civilian clothes, making it the regular army deserters. We ask one of the insurgents, Tofik Aimangosh, if you have forced them if the military or the weapons were delivered spontaneously.
"No, we have to give them, because now it means that if you want more armed fight, otherwise you have a chance to leave you in peace," said Tofik. Yeah, that too is part of the defeat of a country. 
Rise from the ground two plumes of gray smoke, now frayed by the wind. It happens at 16:45 at the checkpoint before the entrance to the town of Ajdabya, 170 kilometers south-west of Benghazi. It 's the first bombing of Muammar Gaddafi aviation forces against the insurgents that ten days ago they released the Cyrenaica from his fierce regime.
And 'the Colonel's first offensive against the people of eastern Libya, which has run Sunday, February 20 shrugged off a revolt with an unexpected and overwhelming oppression lasting 42 years. What is the purpose of the raid? The men who preside over the checkpoint tell us that three quarters of an hour before the fighters have already dropped two rockets at an ammunition dump, but they had already emptied.
Assistant to the case in this aggression air returning from Brega, miserable appendage of large oil terminals. We are left with the fact, Stephen mentioned, and with that of Sole24Ore, Roberto Bongiorni, we are the only journalists present, then the only way to tell it. A few kilometers before reaching the checkpoint, we learn of the first raid.
We decided then, once there, to get out to inform us. We find a dozen soldiers - if you can call it a gathering of truck drivers, school teachers, shepherds, bakers and students wearing a military uniform - busy around three anti-aircraft guns mounted on many pickups. Some seem to discuss what to do, others, meanwhile, fill the feeders with big bullets extracted from dark green wooden boxes.
What screams more is a very dark-skinned giant. Sweating profusely, and is the only one that has the appearance of a leader. Suddenly, jump behind the wheel of a pickup with surprising agility, starts off like a rally and scoured change the position of the vehicle, away from the other two.
He saw it all. The two planes. The rockets, their trajectories. Waving them out to others, which starts shooting wildly. Why this attack? And what do you hope to win, Gaddafi, in a few days after losing the entire Cyrenaica and other large regions of the country? It 's true, Colonel, we have explained the leaders of the revolt of Benghazi, still would have dozens of combat aircraft, but pilots would no longer willing to bomb their fellow Libyans.
Yesterday's attack seems to belie this belief, so far as to drive the planes were not quite mercenary pilots, African, or maybe Europe. One answer to why the air strikes yesterday gives us the El Sharif Idris, professor of Economics at the University of Garyounis Benghazi. El Sharif says: "After Ajdabya, and down to Brega and Ras Lanus, there are several terminals in the Sirt Oil Company, where it comes from oil and gas, where it is refined, and where it starts to Europe.
These platforms are all in the hands of insurgents, but they are still surrounded by pockets of pro-militia Gaddafi. If the rebellion succeeds in making a clean sweep of these militias, to finally become independent by means Cyrenaica and Tripoli can wait a physiological end of the Colonel.
So in that region that is still being fought, and Gaddafi does not hesitate to bomb planes with even the most remote villages. " We spoke of Brega: consists of a twenty-storey houses along a desert road, straight as a shot. Unable to go further in the direction of Sirte, the stronghold of the Colonel, 500 miles from Benghazi.
Do not you dare even the insurgents themselves, if not in groups and armed to the teeth. Two days ago, we have tried three freelance photojournalist, who were robbed, stripped naked and savagely beaten. Here they are the oil terminals. Li glimpse through a triple-wire fence, with its elegant houses for skilled workers, and white tanks filled with crude oil.
Until a few days ago, the entrance of each compound stands a large poster of the dictator of Tripoli, which now has remained a piece of oratory fez or a clenched fist outstretched upwards. Here is the last checkpoint of the insurgents. When we arrive, they are celebrating with the release of bursts of machine gun fire a couple of guys from the clutches of the Praetorian Guard colonel.
A few hours ago, we are told, came from Tobruz 85 soldiers. Before crossing the checkpoint, left their Kalashnikovs and wore civilian clothes, making it the regular army deserters. We ask one of the insurgents, Tofik Aimangosh, if you have forced them if the military or the weapons were delivered spontaneously.
"No, we have to give them, because now it means that if you want more armed fight, otherwise you have a chance to leave you in peace," said Tofik. Yeah, that too is part of the defeat of a country.
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