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| Five rebels said killed in NATO strike in Libya |
| 2011-04-08 |
| [Arab News] A NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the style of the American pants... air strike killed at least five rebels near the Libyan port of Brega on Thursday, medics said, and rebels reported Muammar Qadaffy's forces killed five more in a bombardment of besieged Misrata. Wounded rebels being brought to the hospital in Ajdabiyah in rebel-held east Libya said their position was hit by an air strike on Thursday outside the contested port. "It was a NATO air strike on us. We were near our vehicles near Brega," maimed fighter Younes Jumaa said from his stretcher at the hospital. Nurse Mohamed Ali said at least five rebels were dead. There was no immediate comment from NATO. The rebels have been fighting to wrest control of Brega from forces loyal to Qadaffy for a week in a see-saw battle along the Mediterranean coast. Bloodstained stretchers were brought out of the hospital in Ajdabiyah, gateway to the rebel stronghold of Benghazi in the east. Rebel spokesmen also told Rooters that Qadaffy forces killed five people and maimed 25 in an artillery bombardment of the isolated western city of Misrata on Wednesday. The barrage forced the temporary closing of Misrata's port, a vital lifeline for supplies to besieged civilians, the spokesmen said. They added that NATO air strikes hit pro-Qadaffy positions around Misrata. Misrata, Libya's third city, rose up with other towns against Qadaffy in mid-February, and has been under siege for weeks, after a violent crackdown put an end to most protests elsewhere in the west of the country. |
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