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LIVE BLOG: Libya - Operation Odyssey Dawn - Channel 4 News

Reports forces loyal to Colonel Gaddafi have entered the centre of the rebel-held city of Misrata with tanks. Residents say that several people have been killed by gunfire.
"Two people were killed so far today by snipers. They are still on the rooftops. They are backed with four tanks, which have been patrolling the town. It's getting very difficult for people to come out," one resident told Reuters.
13.20 Resident of Misrata in Libya claims pro-Gaddafi forces are using boats to blockade the city's port and to prevent supplies from entering.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Sun Mar 20th, 2011 at 09:42:09 AM EST

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Libya intervention comes too late for some - Africa - Al Jazeera English

Opposition forces in Benghazi say 30 people were killed and many more wounded when troops loyal to longtime leader Muammar Gaddafi attacked the western outskirts of the rebel stronghold in the hours after the UN Security Council approved military action against him.
Residents of the city expressed anger with the international community, saying it had acted too slowly to prevent one final assault from Gaddafi.
But opposition fighters more than held their own, driving back the loyalist troops - some of whom may have remained in Benghazi all along as "sleeper cells" - and capturing at least two tanks.

_{*Lunatic*, n.

One whose delusions are out of fashion.}

by DoDo on Sun Mar 20th, 2011 at 10:15:56 AM EST
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Libya Live Blog - March 20 | Al Jazeera Blogs

Timestamp: 12:21pm
According to the AFP news agency, one hospital in Benghazi says at least 94 people died in Gaddafi's last push on the city late Friday night and Saturday morning, in the hours after the UN security council approved military action against him but before coalition planes were in the air.

_{*Lunatic*, n.

One whose delusions are out of fashion.}

by DoDo on Sun Mar 20th, 2011 at 10:26:09 AM EST
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On the Al Jazeera blog, there is a rebel YouTube video up, showing dead 'loyalists' in jeeps, one of which appears to be a mercenary as a rebel removes dollars from his pocket. The video taker cries "Allah Akbar!" without pause.

_{*Lunatic*, n.

One whose delusions are out of fashion.}

by DoDo on Sun Mar 20th, 2011 at 10:30:25 AM EST
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