Tuesday, May 3, 2011

Gadhafi Misrata strikes again

The forces of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi to continued one more day with the siege and bombarded the third Misrata Libyan city of 300 thousand inhabitants, with very long-range missiles, according to rebels in the western city. In the last three days and for the first time, troops of the regime began to use rockets to 80 km range and more destructive than the Russians Grad (40 km) used so far, the sources said, as could be observed on the field.

Gadhafi forces intermittently Misrata attack with heavy artillery from the outskirts of the city, where they are deployed after being removed from the center of it. Still, the city remains under rebel control and fighting between insurgents and gadafistas raging in the suburbs, which are being most affected by the bombing.

The port area is one of the hardest hit, so is preventing the entry of vessels at the same, the only path to Misrata, blockaded and besieged by the Libyan Army for more than two months. The same sources said that a ship with rebel fighters has spent three days at sea hoping to reach the port of Misrata.

For several days, also fought battles for control of the city's airport, which today was still in the hands of the rebels, according to sources cited.

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