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| Libya rebels say they are advancing on Brega |
| 2011-08-07 |
| BENGHAZI, Libya - Libyan rebels on Saturday said they had launched a push to capture the coastal oil town of Brega, but were advancing slowly because Muammar Gaddafi’s forces had sown landmines on the approaches to the town. “There’s a big movement on all fronts around Brega, we are attacking from three sides,” said rebel spokesman Mohammad Zawawi. Fighting on the eastern front of the civil war, which has ebbed backwards and forwards for the past months, has been bogged down for weeks on the fringes of Brega, southwest of the rebel capital Benghazi. Zawawi said rebel forces were in sight of a residential area of Brega and believed they could take the town. “It could be very soon, but we don’t want to lose anybody so we’re moving slowly but surely,” he said. |
| Posted by:Steve White |
| #5 I was going to say... Montgomery had a devil of a time with Caen. |
| Posted by: badanov 2011-08-07 16:16 |
| #4 Eh, Montgomery was "turning on Caen" as a cover for having failed to, you know, break out at Caen like his people planned in the first place. The problem with the advancing on Brega business is that they keep claiming to have taken Brega, and then a week later, it's "advancing on Brega" again. I've noticed the same thing in the west with "al Asabiyah", which is basically a wide spot in the road to Garyan. At least Brega is an actual strategic goal of value in itself... |
| Posted by: Mitch H. 2011-08-07 16:07 |
| #3 Sort of like Montgomery "turning" on Caen. |
| Posted by: Bill Clinton 2011-08-07 14:42 |
| #2 Indeed, to advance is to move the discourse. There are infinite ways to advance on Brega. Brega is only a construct made important by maps and the alphabet. We will always be advancing on Brega. /send money |
| Posted by: S 2011-08-07 12:01 |
| #1 They're always advancing on Brega. |
| Posted by: gr(o)mgoru 2011-08-07 11:45 |