Libyan forces gain momentum in Sirte assault

[alp227]

Source: The Guardian

Libyan government forces have made rapid advances in several parts of the besieged city of Sirte, capturing large areas and gaining a seemingly unstoppable momentum.

Pro-Gaddafi defenders of the city were pushed into an ever smaller pocket measuring about 6 sq km, which one advance threatened to cut in half.

Despite continued resistance in several areas, government forces from Benghazi and neighbouring towns broke through in the city centre and in the east of Sirte.

The gains came as a revolutionary fighter who monitors the radio traffic of Gaddafi forces said he believed that a number of high-ranking figures of the former regime were directing the increasingly desperate last stand.

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/oct/11/libya-forces-momentum-sirte

[walerosco]

1. Some days

I wish I could transform into Bumble bee and join the true Libyans in the battle against the rebels. I will kick so much ass that the foreign invaders wont know what hit them. Another African country is just about to fall to the western powers. Sad day

[octothorpe]

2. Some days I wish I could transform into a spider...

so that I could spin webs and hang from trees.

[oberliner]

3. Who are the true Libyans?

How do you know which Libyans are true Libyans and which aren't?

[Muskypundit]

4. When your first sentence is wishing you could turn into a transformer

You lose all credibility. The rest of that puts you heavy in the red.

But I did laugh, your funny, Ill give you that.

[octothorpe]

6. Ohhh the transformer Bumble Bee...

His post makes way more sense now.

[Arctic Dave]

5. Shouldn't it read "massacre"?

Or is that only when people other then western military coup rebels do it?