BENGHAZI, Libya - Libyan rebels on Saturday said they had launched a push to capture the coastal oil town of Brega, but were advancing slowly because Muammar GaddafiÂ’s forces had sown landmines on the approaches to the town.
“There’s a big movement on all fronts around Brega, we are attacking from three sides,” said rebel spokesman Mohammad Zawawi.
Fighting on the eastern front of the civil war, which has ebbed backwards and forwards for the past months, has been bogged down for weeks on the fringes of Brega, southwest of the rebel capital Benghazi.
Zawawi said rebel forces were in sight of a residential area of Brega and believed they could take the town.
“It could be very soon, but we don’t want to lose anybody so we’re moving slowly but surely,” he said. |