The Libyan rebel advance was stopped on Monday morning, 28 March, by the forces of Muammar Gaddafi at the exit of Ben Jawad, located 140 km east of the city of Sirte, said a journalist from the. They were taken Monday morning under heavy machine gun fire forces Gaddafi came to pickup on the road from Ben Jawad Nofilia in the direction of Sirte.
The rebels then flowed toward Ben Jawad, before responding with heavy artillery. The intense exchange of fire continued in the morning. After a series of loud explosions heard in the morning, calm had returned to the hometown of the Libyan leader. At dawn - between 6:35 a.m. 6:20 a.m. ET - nine explosions rocked Sirte, which was flown by planes, suggesting that the explosions were caused by coalition air raid.
Sunday night raids had also targeted the city, without the DCA Gaddafi is heard. A little over an hour later, calm prevailed in this city of 135,000 inhabitants halfway between Tripoli and Benghazi. The streets were deserted and there was no overflying aircraft. It was not possible to know whether the air strike Sunday night and Monday morning had caused damage.
Furthermore, no evidence attests to the presence of insurgents, whose spokesman had announced the decision a few hours earlier. Following the announcement - at least premature - men fired into the air as a sign of joy in Benghazi, while others honked in the streets of the "capital" of the insurgents.
Sunday night, a journalist had reported seeing a convoy of about twenty military vehicles, including trucks air defenses, leaving Sirte, westbound, to Tripoli, accompanied by dozens of vehicles evacuating civilians families and their belongings. 
The rebels then flowed toward Ben Jawad, before responding with heavy artillery. The intense exchange of fire continued in the morning. After a series of loud explosions heard in the morning, calm had returned to the hometown of the Libyan leader. At dawn - between 6:35 a.m. 6:20 a.m. ET - nine explosions rocked Sirte, which was flown by planes, suggesting that the explosions were caused by coalition air raid.
Sunday night raids had also targeted the city, without the DCA Gaddafi is heard. A little over an hour later, calm prevailed in this city of 135,000 inhabitants halfway between Tripoli and Benghazi. The streets were deserted and there was no overflying aircraft. It was not possible to know whether the air strike Sunday night and Monday morning had caused damage.
Furthermore, no evidence attests to the presence of insurgents, whose spokesman had announced the decision a few hours earlier. Following the announcement - at least premature - men fired into the air as a sign of joy in Benghazi, while others honked in the streets of the "capital" of the insurgents.
Sunday night, a journalist had reported seeing a convoy of about twenty military vehicles, including trucks air defenses, leaving Sirte, westbound, to Tripoli, accompanied by dozens of vehicles evacuating civilians families and their belongings.
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