War in Libya:Sirte close to surrender – NTC

Laaska News Oct. 5,2011

 

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Forces of Libya’s National Transitional Council say they have overrun more than one half of Gaddafi’s home city Sirte and will probably take full control of it within a couple of days.

The pro-Gaddafi defenders there have been fiercely holding out for six weeks.

The International Red Cross speaks about a sorry plight of the city’s civilians.

(TASS)
Libya’s NTC to capture Sirte soon: spokesman
 
TRIPOLI, Oct. 5 (Xinhua) — Fighters of Libya’s ruling National Transitional Council (NTC) will soon capture Sirte, hometown of the fallen leader Muammar Gaddafi, and the current situation there is under control, NTC’s military spokesman Ahmed Bani said here Wednesday.

Bani said some NTC fighters have managed to “penetrate” into Sirte and have fully surrounded the town, while coordination has started for future attacks with the help of some local youths.

The NTC will fully capture Sirte in the upcoming days, Bani said, without offering a detailed timetable.

He meanwhile dismissed reports that some NTC members were preventing civilians in Sirte from receiving aid from outside the town, calling the reports “illogical.”

Some “revolutionary fighters destroyed the locations of snipers ” so as to help them leave, and some “paid themselves as the price, ” Bani said.

On Bani Walid, another remaining Gaddafi stronghold in southeast of Tripoli, Bani again stressed the “geographical case” there, saying that it “sometimes fights for you, and sometimes fights against you.”

Now the NTC fighters have succeeded in taking the challenge in their favor in Bani Walid, which Bani had described as “between mountains,” and there are “future preparations” for the town which “cannot be raised at the moment,” he said.

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