Qadaffy... a proud Arab institution for 42 years ...
and rebel fighters in the northwest city of Nalut have left at least eight rebel fighters dead 13 more maimed, according to a fighter.
The fighting in Nalut comes a day after rebels captured a 2km stretch west of Misrata in central Libya.
"The battles started yesterday and are continuing today," Abou Saa told the Rooters news agency on Saturday.
"The revolutionaries destroyed six armoured vehicles and killed more than 45 enemy soldiers. The rebels surrounded Qadaffy's forces, who are holed up in a compound."
Al Jizz's James Bays, reporting from Nalut, described heavy kabooms and plumes of smoke rising from the city.
"We can hear small arms and machine guns as well," he said. "Mortars and missiles are also being used.
"The opposition holds ground from the Tunisian border to a position where some fighters are [barely] 80km away from Tripoli."
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...
has accused Qadaffy of using mosques and children's parks as shields for his military operations, saying the long-time ruler who lashed out against alliance air strikes is the one ''brutally attacking the Libyan people''.
Hours later, at least two kabooms shook Tripoli as NATO jets soared above the capital. It was not immediately clear what had been hit or if there were casualties in the late afternoon raid.