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Gaddafi agents encroaching on Benghazi?




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The city of Benghazi is now the de facto capitol of rebel held eastern Libya. Libyan leader Col. Muammar Gaddafi never completely trusted the citizens of Libya’s second largest city. Rebels in Benghazi are hard at work training new recruits and fixing the mostly decades-old weapons Muammar Gaddafi forces left behind.


A long history of rebellion, and a few failed assassination attempts in the town, always made it a stronghold of possible dissent.


So, he installed an enormous military base in the middle of the city, called the Katiba. Katiba means “battalion” in Arabic, but it came to mean “the Garrison.” And it occupied prime real estate in Benghazi.


The Katiba is a sprawling complex of bunkers, barracks, fancy guest houses and opulent meeting rooms surrounded by high walls and watch towers. On February 17, the Katiba became the front line in the battle for the city. After a bloody battle, it became t the last Gaddafi stronghold to fall in the city. Now, it’s become a place for reflection, and celebration.

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“See all the bullet holes in the houses here, the main fight was here, this street,” said Nasr, a young medical student who was here during the battle.


For three days, anti-Gaddafi protestors tried to storm the Katiba. Many were killed. The large, green gate at the entrance has been blasted to pieces.


“This used to be gate, the big one, the main gate, snipers were in that big tower now,” Nasr said. “So a man named Mehdi Zeyo, he’s married and got two daughters, he went to his house and said goodbye. So he got gas bottles in his car, and they were shooting at him and it exploded. He killed two guards here. That was the day the people entered the Katiba.”


On April 15, an intelligence officer said agents of Muammar Gaddafi likely to create large-scale explosion within 20 days. There have been many Gaddafi agents in Benghazi, where days of calm may indicate sabotage risk.(MWC News)