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joshcryer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-22-11 09:40 PM
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3. Audio: Guardian’s Xan Rice about the opposition’s significant gains in Misrata
Edited on Fri Apr-22-11 09:40 PM by joshcryer
Audio: Guardian’s Xan Rice about the opposition’s significant gains in Misrata
The opposition in Misrata has made some significant gains, driving back Gaddafi’s forces from several tall buildings in Misrata. The Guardian’s Xan Rice is in Misrata and has seen the badly damaged eight-storey office block that was home to a large number of Gaddafi’s snipers until yesterday. Xan witnessed the remains of their presence, such as “thousands of bullet casings, discarded uniform and, chillingly, graffiti promising never to forgive the city’s people and to return and punish them”.

It’s a big thing for the opposition fighters to have driven out the snipers from this building.


Audio at link.

Chilling article. Gaddafi's forces are the epitome of evil.
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