Reply #11: Misrata still being shelled by Gaddafi loyalists, journalists attacked, Obama on Libya

[joshcryer]

http://uk.reuters.com/article/2011/05/21/uk-libya-idUKTRE74E1I420110521">Libya rebels say government shells port city
Libyan government forces shelled residential areas on Saturday outside Misrata, a port city held by rebels fighting to overthrow Muammar Gaddafi, a rebel website said.

The shelling damaged houses in the eastern and western outskirts of the city but no one was hurt, said the Brnieq opposition newspaper on its website. There was no independent confirmation of the attack.

Three months into an uprising against Gaddafi's four-decade rule, rebels control the oil-producing east of the country and pockets in the west including Misrata, where hundreds have died in a siege and weeks of fierce fighting.

http://uk.reuters.com/article/2011/05/21/uk-libya-journalists-idUKTRE74K1I420110521">Libya crowd attacks bus carrying foreign journalists
Libyans armed with guns and a knife stormed a bus carrying foreign journalists on Saturday and a soldier fired volleys of gunfire into the air to disperse the crowd, a Reuters journalist on the bus said.

The attack reflected Libyan anger at severe petrol shortages, a two-month-old NATO bombing campaign against Muammar Gaddafi's government and state media reports that foreign journalists misrepresent the news.

The incident started when a hotel shuttle bus carrying a Reuters reporter and a journalist with Hong Kong-based Phoenix Television to the Tunisian border became snarled in a long line of motorists waiting for fuel at a petrol station in Zawiyah, west of the capital.

http://uk.reuters.com/article/2011/05/21/uk-libya-usa-obama-idUKTRE74K08920110521">Obama, on Libya deadline, welcomes Congress support
U.S. President Barack Obama, facing criticism from some lawmakers that U.S. military action against Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi is about to become illegal, said on Friday the mission would benefit from congressional support.

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"I wish to express my support for the bipartisan resolution ... which would confirm that the Congress supports the U.S. mission in Libya and that both branches are united in their commitment," the president said in a letter to top lawmakers.