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| Rebels claim capture of last army base in Tripoli |
| 2011-08-28 |
| TRIPOLI - Libyan rebels said they captured the last military base held by forces loyal to strongman Moamer Kadhafi in the Tripoli area on Saturday. “NATO struck and then our special forces attacked,” fighter Nurdin Yussef Misrata, 36, who took part in a dawn assault on the base of 32 Brigade commanded by Khamis Khadafi, a son of the leader, told AFP. He said the battle in Salaheddin, a suburb five kilometres (three miles) south of Tripoli, raged for seven hours. The complex of mustard-walled buildings had its walls holed by bombs, its roofs caved in and windows blasted open. Witnin hours of the end of the battle, rebel fighters had completely emptied the storage rooms of weapons from Germany, the United States, Russia and Italy, an AFP correspondent at the scene said. Casualty figures were not immediately available. |
| Posted by:Steve White |