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Gaddafi forces recapture Ras Lanuf |
2011-03-31 |
![]() Qadaffy forces recaptured the eastern oil town of Ras Lanuf on Wednesday, forcing the revolutionary forces to flee to the east, AFP reported. On Tuesday, Qadaffy troops reportedly launched a new attack on the positions of the revolutionary forces in Misratah, the town located some 200 kilometers east of the capital Tripoli. Representatives from the UN, NATO, the African Union and the vaporous Arab League who attended London conference on Tuesday formed front in order to continue the Western alliance's mission in the country and unanimously agreed that Qadaffy must leave Libya. The Libyan regime says that at least 114 people, mostly civilians, have been killed and 445 others injured in the campaign of US-led military Although Qadaffy has sworn to battle the revolutionary forces to the last soldier in his army, his government has admitted that US, French and British Before the Now, with the battle being taken towards Tripoli, the revolutionary leaders are formulating a new civilian structure for the country, saying they would begin exporting some of the 130,000 barrels of oil -- Libya's vital export resource -- they are pumping daily to finance their aims. |
Posted by:Fred |
#2 g(r)omgoru, many thanks for posting one of my favorites from Housman. So fitting. |
Posted by: Canuckistan sniper 2011-03-31 20:30 |
#1 These, in the days when heaven was falling, The hour when earth's foundations fled, Followed their mercenary calling And took their wages and are dead. Their shoulders held the sky suspended; They stood, and the earth's foundations stay; When God abandoned, these defended, And saved the sum of things for pay. |
Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2011-03-31 13:38 |