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Fighting rages in Misrata despite government retreat claim
- Source: Global Times
- [02:52 April 25 2011]
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A Libyan rebel looks skywards after hearing the thunder of warplanes believed to be for NATO forces at the western gate of the strategic town of Ajdabiya on Saturday. Photo: AFP
Libyan rebels accused Muammar Gaddafi of dirty tricks in Misrata, where salvos of Grad rockets exploded on Sunday in apparent contradiction of his regime's vow to halt fire in the country's third-largest city.
"Gaddafi is playing a really dirty game," Colonel Omar Bani, the rebel Transitional National Council's military spokesman, told AFP.
Libyan Deputy Foreign Minister Khaled Kaim had previously announced government forces would withdraw from Misrata and leave local tribes to resolve the conflict in the city.
on Sunday Kaim said the army had "simply suspended their operations" but "not withdrawn from" the coastal city.
"The tribes are determined to solve the problem within 48 hours. ... We believe that this battle will be settled peacefully and not militarily," he said, according to AFP.
"Gaddafi's forces won't give up easily on Misrata, only 210 kilometers east of Libyan capital Tripoli," Fang Bing, a military strategy expert from the National Defense University in Beijing, told the Global Times. "Once Misrata is completely held by rebels, a continuous supply of munitions and weapons will be shipped to the port. Gaddafi won't be comfortable seeing that happen."
Misrata on Saturday suffered the worst toll in 65 days of fighting, with 25 rebels dead and 100 wounded compared with a daily average of 11 killed.
Government forces have recaptured the town of Yafran, a border post claimed by rebels Thursday in Libya's Western Mountains.
Separately, a Los Angles Times report said on Sunday that the international drive to freeze the Libyan government's assets was running into stiff resistance in many parts of the world.
Gaddafi has moved billions of dollars back to Tripoli since the rebellion began in mid-February, the report said.
Agencies – Global Times