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Tick Tok. The clock is counting down for cities remaining loyal to ousted Libyan dictator Col. Muammar Gaddafi. Here’s Fox News.
“The latest now in the crisis in Libya. It looks like Muammar Gaddafi is not ready to end his conflict with a peace plan. The Libyan rebels were trying to negotiate for the town of Bali Walid to surrender as one of Gaddafi’s last strongholds and two of Gaddafi’s sons are believed to be hiding there. Those talks failed so now the rebels are preparing for a full out assault.”
The BBC reports -- loyalists are unwilling to give up the towns of Bali Walid and Gaddafi’s hometown of Sirte (SIR-TAY). Euronews notes-- the rebels have their own suspicions about why that might be.
“Libya’s new government have tightened their siege on Bani Walid where some suspect Muammar Gaddafi may be sheltering.”
Even though the agreement was to wait until midnight on Friday before attacking loyalists in the towns, anti-Gaddafi forces say they’ve come under attack. A BBC reporter says...
“The anti-Gaddafi forces had given a briefing in which they said they had had no choice but to respond to the loyalist attacks.”
Those casualties the Libya’s National Transitional Council wants to minimize are the citizens still in Bani Walid. An NTC general tells the BBC...
“‘A lot of people want to leave but they have no fuel to power their cars and Gaddafi forces are preventing people from leaving the city. They fire in the air to terrorise people.’”
Finally, a Gaddafi loyalist who is now in Niger says he and other loyalists will fight for Gaddafi as long as victory is possible.
"We'll always be loyal to our guide Gaddafi. As long as he lives, as long as he will fight, we will be at his side. We are ready to sacrifice ourselves for him."
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