Qadaffy's forces damaged an oil refinery in the bully boy stronghold of Misrata, disrupting fuel supply lines. A photographer in Misrata joined rebel units as they pushed their front several kilometres west on Monday to the outskirts of Zlitan, a town controlled by Qadaffy's forces. Any fighting over Zlitan would bring the rebellion closer to the capital Tripoli, the Libyan leader's stronghold which lies 200 kilometres west of Misrata. A doctor in a field hospital to the west of Libya's third largest city said two rebels had been killed and a dozen maimed after the two sides traded heavy artillery fire. Rebels from Misrata say tribal sensitivities prevent them from attacking Zlitan, and they are instead waiting for local inhabitants to rise up. Late on Monday, six rockets hit generators at the refinery near Misrata port leaving them heavily damaged. An engineer on site said it was unclear how long it would take to repair. 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...
said it struck an armoured vehicle armed with anti-aircraft guns east of Tripoli on Tuesday as well as a multiple rocket launcher and another anti-aircraft system. A NATO statement said the alliance also struck an armed pickup truck, a tank, a multiple rocket launcher and an armoured vehicle in Misrata on Monday night. "These types of equipment have been used to indiscriminately target the civilian population throughout Libya," the commander of the NATO mission, Lieutenant-General Charles Bouchard, said.