Libyan forces push rebels back | Toronto Telegraph

Libyan forces push rebels back

Independent.ie Tuesday 5th April, 2011

Libyan government forces have unleashed a withering bombardment on rebels outside a key oil town, pushing them back even as the regime said Muammar Gaddafi might consider some reforms but would not step down.The rebels managed to take part of the town of Brega on Monday, aided by an international air campaign that has pounded Gaddafi's heavy weapons, but the rocket and artillery salvos unleashed on the rebels indicated the government's offensive capabilities remain. Rebel attempts to fire rockets and mortars against the government forces were met with aggressive counter bombardments that sent many of the rebel forces scrambling back all the way to the town of Ajdabiya, dozens of miles away. There did not appear to be any immediate response from the international aircraft patrolling the sk...

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