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| Rebels say they've pushed Qadaffy forces back from Misrata |
| 2011-04-29 |
| [Emirates 24/7] Rebels said they had managed to push back Qadaffy's forces and secure the besieged port of Misrata, a day after it came under sustained rocket fire. The gunnies said NATO raids overnight enabled them to force Qadaffy's troops 40 kilometres (25 miles) from the city, which is pressed by regime forces from the east, west and south. That put Qadaffy's Grad rockets ...Soviet-made 122-mm rockets, usually launched from trucks. Newer versions have a range of up to 30 km.... out of range of the port, an aid conduit for rebels in the western city of half a million people under siege for more than seven weeks. Further west, Qadaffy forces were massed in force in an apparent bid to recapture the Dehiba border post with Tunisia, a Western military source said. Witnesses said the area was rocked by artillery and mortar fire. "There is a lot of fire in the area at the foot of the mountains," said a taxi driver at the border, 200 kilometres (125 miles) south of Ras Jdir, the main crossing point into Tunisia that the rebels seized on Thursday. Security sources in Tunis said Qadaffy fighters tried earlier Wednesday to enter Tunisia at a point south of Dehiba in a bid to sneak up on the rebels, but were stopped by Tunisian forces. |
| Posted by:Fred |