Winning the war while losing ground:
"rebels control roughly the eastern third of the country"
Now it could be me, readers; however, you can check for yourself. I was led to believe the country was split in half.
But hey, what's one more AmeriKan media lie piled upon a s*** pile off them, 'eh?
"NATO warplanes batter Khadafy compound; Libyan leader vows: ‘We will never submit’" by John F. Burns, New York Times / June 8, 2011
TRIPOLI, Libya — In a sudden, sharp escalation of NATO’s air campaign over Libya, warplanes dropped more than 60 bombs on targets in Tripoli yesterday, obliterating large areas of Moammar Khadafy’s Bab al-Aziziya command compound....
The unusual daylight raids, the most intense on the Libyan capital since the aerial campaign started more than 11 weeks ago, began in mid-morning and continued after dark....
Bunker-busting bombs laid waste to an area of about 2 acres in one corner of the compound, destroying six or seven major buildings and leaving a twisted, smoking mass of steel and concrete.
A Libyan official said last night that the attacks killed 31 people and wounded dozens more, many of them security guards and “totally innocent civilians.’’ That number could not be confirmed.
Earlier, officials said that about 15 people lay buried in the ruins of one building alone, though the only casualty seen by Western reporters who were bused to the scene was a man who was pulled from the rubble while they were there, identified by officials as a cleaner.
The man’s body had been spotted by a US television crew, then laid out beneath a green sheet on a rubble-strewn roadway while an ambulance was summoned. Officials said the extent of the devastation made it impossible for the heavy machinery needed to search for bodies to reach the area.
In a city grown accustomed to the NATO raids, the attacks caused a heightened level of alarm, partly because they began so early in the day, when this capital of 2.5 million people was busy with its daily routines.
Yes, there are PEOPLE JUST LIKE YOU and ME standing UNDER THOSE BOMBS!
But they live in an area under Khadafy's control so they must be evil.
Most of the nearly 4,000 strike sorties flown by NATO since the air war began in March have been carried out deep into the night, partly, NATO officials have said, to minimize the risk of civilian casualties. But yesterday’s daylight raids emptied much of the city of traffic, with stores in large areas of the city shuttered and the few people out hurrying to complete their business and find shelter....
With the repeated bombing of his Tripoli compound, Khadafy has become a fugitive in his own capital, unable or unwilling to appear on television and forced, so NATO and people in the rebel underground in Tripoli have said, to stay constantly on the move in the hope of cloaking his whereabouts from NATO.
I was told earlier NATO knows where he is.
His isolation has been compounded by signs that support for him has ebbed away in wide areas of Tripoli, and growing numbers of high-level defections, from the top ranks of the government and the army. Yesterday, Libya’s labor minister, Al-Amin Manfur, added his name to the growing exodus, declaring at a meeting in Geneva of the International Labor Organization that he was now supporting the rebel government, the National Transitional Council, Agence France-Presse reported.
Western leaders have been cautious, renewing warnings in recent days that it could still take weeks or months to topple the Libyan leader.
SIGH!
But the warnings have come with vows to intensify the airstrikes and to assist the rebels in breaking the stalemate that has settled over the ground war in eastern Libya.
That hope was evident at a joint news conference in Washington yesterday held by President Obama and the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, when Obama said the Khadafy government was starting to collapse. “What you are seeing across the country is an inexorable trend of the regime forces being pushed back, being incapacitated,’’ he said. “I think it is just a matter of time before Khadafy goes.’’
Uh-huh.
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"Khadafy forces kill 22 rebels on the outskirts of Misurata; No sign of NATO response near surrounded city" June 11, 2011|By Maggie Michael and Diaa Hadid, Associated Press
TRIPOLI, Libya — Libyan government forces pounded a town on the outskirts of the rebel-held city of Misurata yesterday, killing at least 22 people, a hospital physician said.
The doctor at Hikma Hospital, who would only give his first name, Ayman, said Moammar Khadafy’s forces used tanks, artillery, and incendiary rockets in the bombardment of Dafniya, about 18 miles west of Misurata....
The doctor said residents had reported no sign of NATO aircraft in the region. There also were no reports NATO strikes in Tripoli, the capital. NATO had been pounding Tripoli and environs in recent days, stepping up backing for the four-month-old rebel uprising seeking to oust Khadafy from power after four decades.
Rebels have taken control of swaths of eastern Libya, but fighting has come to a stalemate even with NATO support....
Government forces are surrounding Misurata on all sides but the north, where the city has access to the Mediterranean Sea for supplies and food. Rebels have beaten back several government attempts to retake the city.
The Khadafy forces are pushing back on rebel forces trying to break out of Misurata to the west toward Tripoli, where Khadafy is increasingly cornered under NATO bombardment in the capital....
Are you sick of the propaganda narrative yet?
Senator Carl Levin of Michigan spoke of the degradation of Khadafy’s forces yesterday after a briefing by senior Pentagon officials in Washington. The chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee said Khadafy’s military and political standing had been weakened by NATO air attacks.
Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates has urged NATO allies, including the Netherlands, to do more in Libya to share the burden with France and Britain, which are carrying out most of the airstrikes.
Related: NATO Closing the Gates on Libya?
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Oh, have I typed we are winning yet?
"Libyan rebels regain ground in key oil port; Move forces shutdown of supply route" June 12, 2011|By Diaa Hadid and Maggie Michael, Associated Press
ZAWIYA, Libya — Libyan rebels battled their way back into a major oil port just 30 miles west of Tripoli yesterday, forcing Moammar Khadafy’s troops to close the vital coast highway and key supply route from Tunisia. The renewed rebel offensive marked a significant rebound for opposition forces who were crushed and driven out of the city nearly three months ago....
While too early to mark a breakthrough in the stalemated civil war between Khadafy forces and the rebels, who control roughly the eastern third of the country, an opposition offensive so near the capital was bound to hamper Khadafy forces.
They have been riddled by defections, badly hurt by ongoing UN-sanctioned NATO airstrikes, and facing huge resupply problems as a result of the naval blockade that has clamped off ports.
The international actions are designed to help the four-month-old rebel uprising drive Khadafy from power in the oil-rich North African country.
Apparently prompted by the Zawiya clashes yesterday, Libyan soldiers sealed off parts of a crucial coastal road leading from Tripoli west to the Tunisian border....
The coastal road is a key artery from neighboring Tunisia for delivering food, fuel, and medicine for the Khadafy regime.
Shelling continued sporadically yesterday near the rebel-held port city of Misurata, as Khadafy forces hit towns on the western outskirts of the city, 125 miles east of Tripoli.
More than 30 rebels were reported killed in government fire from tanks, artillery, and incendiary rockets that rained down on Dafniya, about 18 miles west of Misurata.
But we are winning and it will be over soon.
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Also see: Two senators ask Obama to justify US role in Libyan
Documented NATO War Crimes In Libya 100% Ignored By Corporate Media
Reminder about the real reasons for the attack on Libya
How can you justify that?
