AGHELA AL - "The attack tonight." The insurgents say the checkpoints and Ajdabya Brega, I think the volunteers behind the anti-aircraft machine guns, the general fear of the invisible army of new and rickety Libya freed. Already, the attack, as if the counter-offensive was launched the day before yesterday was only the taste of what Gaddafi prepares to launch in the coming hours.
Explain Lashrush Adel Faraj, a young patriot with his face smeared with camouflage make-up: "I'm afraid that with a couple of fighters, a dozen armored vehicles and fifty soldiers Gaddafi has only joking. It seems that so far has wanted to test our strength before filling the oil terminal of Brega, and thus strangle the people of Ajdabya, Benghazi and Tobruk.
When we arrive at Brega, two rockets have exploded just in front of the university. They just did, literally, two holes in the sand. A couple of hours before the revolutionary forces had captured four mercenaries instead of the Niger, betrayed by the numbers stored on their mobile phones, representing the Army Commander Gaddafi in Sirte.
They are also very young and frightened face. Four big man who looks more like a gruff martial escort them to the car that will take them to Benghazi. After the checkpoint Brega, continue to Al Aghela, the last outpost soon recaptured by the insurgents. Besides you do not go, because the risk of running into a sniper of the Colonel, or worse, in his armored vehicle.
The traces of the battle that has unfolded a few hours ago consist of a few cars or some pickup hit by a grenade. To the north, the horizon is closed by sand dunes clearer, bathed by the Mediterranean. The road is dotted with dozens of dead dogs. Otherwise, the green oasis and the camels that graze several thorny shrubs make the place a picture postcard.
In the desert of Al Aghela settlers of Mussolini built a camp to imprison the Bedouin of Cyrenaica. It was 1930, and about ten thousand of them died of starvation. On the side of the road that divides the village are parked two trucks: the first carrying 65 men, the other 80. Egyptian workers are fleeing the fighting in Misurata, closer to Tripoli.
One of the drivers says he saw thousands of soldiers before Gaddafi Ras Lanuf, the largest oil terminal in North Africa, which lies about forty miles away. He said: "They are armed to the teeth and oversee a multitude of checkpoints. For each of these we have sent down, they checked all our passengers more than once, robbed them of their money and the batteries of their mobile phones." The urban riots in Libya freed a few days and other eastern areas of the country has run now turned into a war being fought in the desert.
On the one hand there is the regular army, composed of professionals and mercenaries from the other, that the insurgents that is slowly taking shape, with its new leadership, volunteer recruitment and deployment of weapons in the area. "We can count on ten thousand men in defense of Benghazi, and twelve to be sent to the conquest of new regions," said Adel Faraj Lashrush.
Difficult to examine the accuracy of these figures. But even if the real patriots were far less numerous, they have another weapon: the dedication to the cause, which can often turn into a vocation for martyrdom. Let Al Aghela just before sunset. One of the rebels, overwhelmed by fatigue, says that the soldiers are already at the sight of the Colonel, standing out in the light of the west.
Going back to Benghazi, we stop at the hospital of Brega, a town which is the appendix of the joint of a pipeline from a huge gas field in the desert. The fourteen dead and fifteen wounded in the first counter-offensive against the Colonel Cyrenaica were all evacuated to Ajdabya. "We need to let cold rooms and beds available for future battles that will shake Brega," says one of the surgeons of the hospital, El Suhil Atrah.
"I am also preparing for war. I got a call from an old patient of Sirte. I said to the militiamen of Gaddafi go house to house to recruit men for the next battle. He is afraid and asks me medical care. So I'm uploading material onto an ambulance that will park at Al Aghela. "Today, meanwhile, are hoping that the insurgents in Benghazi after Friday prayers the people of Tripoli able to overthrow the regime.
Yesterday, they refused the mediation of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, surprisingly accepted by Gaddafi. 
Explain Lashrush Adel Faraj, a young patriot with his face smeared with camouflage make-up: "I'm afraid that with a couple of fighters, a dozen armored vehicles and fifty soldiers Gaddafi has only joking. It seems that so far has wanted to test our strength before filling the oil terminal of Brega, and thus strangle the people of Ajdabya, Benghazi and Tobruk.
When we arrive at Brega, two rockets have exploded just in front of the university. They just did, literally, two holes in the sand. A couple of hours before the revolutionary forces had captured four mercenaries instead of the Niger, betrayed by the numbers stored on their mobile phones, representing the Army Commander Gaddafi in Sirte.
They are also very young and frightened face. Four big man who looks more like a gruff martial escort them to the car that will take them to Benghazi. After the checkpoint Brega, continue to Al Aghela, the last outpost soon recaptured by the insurgents. Besides you do not go, because the risk of running into a sniper of the Colonel, or worse, in his armored vehicle.
The traces of the battle that has unfolded a few hours ago consist of a few cars or some pickup hit by a grenade. To the north, the horizon is closed by sand dunes clearer, bathed by the Mediterranean. The road is dotted with dozens of dead dogs. Otherwise, the green oasis and the camels that graze several thorny shrubs make the place a picture postcard.
In the desert of Al Aghela settlers of Mussolini built a camp to imprison the Bedouin of Cyrenaica. It was 1930, and about ten thousand of them died of starvation. On the side of the road that divides the village are parked two trucks: the first carrying 65 men, the other 80. Egyptian workers are fleeing the fighting in Misurata, closer to Tripoli.
One of the drivers says he saw thousands of soldiers before Gaddafi Ras Lanuf, the largest oil terminal in North Africa, which lies about forty miles away. He said: "They are armed to the teeth and oversee a multitude of checkpoints. For each of these we have sent down, they checked all our passengers more than once, robbed them of their money and the batteries of their mobile phones." The urban riots in Libya freed a few days and other eastern areas of the country has run now turned into a war being fought in the desert.
On the one hand there is the regular army, composed of professionals and mercenaries from the other, that the insurgents that is slowly taking shape, with its new leadership, volunteer recruitment and deployment of weapons in the area. "We can count on ten thousand men in defense of Benghazi, and twelve to be sent to the conquest of new regions," said Adel Faraj Lashrush.
Difficult to examine the accuracy of these figures. But even if the real patriots were far less numerous, they have another weapon: the dedication to the cause, which can often turn into a vocation for martyrdom. Let Al Aghela just before sunset. One of the rebels, overwhelmed by fatigue, says that the soldiers are already at the sight of the Colonel, standing out in the light of the west.
Going back to Benghazi, we stop at the hospital of Brega, a town which is the appendix of the joint of a pipeline from a huge gas field in the desert. The fourteen dead and fifteen wounded in the first counter-offensive against the Colonel Cyrenaica were all evacuated to Ajdabya. "We need to let cold rooms and beds available for future battles that will shake Brega," says one of the surgeons of the hospital, El Suhil Atrah.
"I am also preparing for war. I got a call from an old patient of Sirte. I said to the militiamen of Gaddafi go house to house to recruit men for the next battle. He is afraid and asks me medical care. So I'm uploading material onto an ambulance that will park at Al Aghela. "Today, meanwhile, are hoping that the insurgents in Benghazi after Friday prayers the people of Tripoli able to overthrow the regime.
Yesterday, they refused the mediation of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, surprisingly accepted by Gaddafi.
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