Reply #2: Libya: Col Gaddafi's forces adopt tactics of mass terror

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His forces are going to extreme lengths to attack civilians after their conventional army with its tanks and artillery has suffered substantial losses from Nato air attacks with a third being destroyed.

The RAF and Royal Navy alone have destroyed at least 250 tanks and artillery and Nato air attacks have destroyed a third of Libya's armour.

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It has also emerged that regime troops have taken to wearing gas masks on the front line as a form of psychological warfare to intimidate the local population particularly in the besieged town of Misurata.

Military intelligence has disclosed that Gaddafi's troops poisoned water wells in Jebel Mustafa, a mountainous region that supplies water to the rebel stronghold of Nalut.


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/libya/8493076/Libya-Col-Gaddafis-forces-adopt-tactics-of-mass-terror.html