The most vital oil city in Libya, namely Misrata, destroyed loyalists bombarded Moammar Qaddafi in the last two days, Saturday and Sunday (8/5/2011). Oil depots controlled by the opposition was bombed and burned. Qaddafi made the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and frustrated opposition.
Hundreds of buildings in this town full of shot holes. Dozens of other buildings have collapsed and the city littered with debris. Most of the residents in this city have fled to neighboring countries in North Africa, including Tunisia. Thousands of others have fled to Italy. Many children and women are victims.
After two days of bombing the North Atlantic Treaty Alliance (NATO), Qaddafi loyalists had fired heavy artillery into the harbor when the ship humanitarian aid to land. Ships intends to evacuate hundreds of African migrant workers and civilians were wounded.
The opposition describes, five people were killed and hundreds others are left stranded on the dock. Reportedly, Qaddafi increasingly stronger forces to defend themselves from NATO attacks. Many humanitarian activists, scholars, and leaders who opposed the regime were arrested, disappeared, and even killed.
Misrata, the third largest city after Tripoli and Benghazi, which is located at 200 kilometers east of Tripoli is the only city in the opposition-controlled western Libya. Within two months of fighting between loyalists and opposition Qaddafi, the city has become the bloodiest battlefield in all Libya.
AFP released, thick smoke blanketed Misrata on Sunday following the bombing and burning of a number of depots in the city Saturday. Hundreds of residents lining up long in almost all public refueling stations, agents, and retailers of fuel oil. They worry that the fuel crisis could last long.
Libyan troops had destroyed four oil storage tanks and set fire to several others in Misrata on Saturday. They create the ability of the opposition-controlled port city that can not be powerless to resist the loyalist siege Qaddafi.
Opposition provides a variety of opinions on the attack, but said military action Qaddafi had disrupted fuel supply export and domestic consumption. "Four completely destroyed the oil depot and a great fire now swept four other tanks. We were unable to extinguish the fire because we do not have the equipment," said Ahmed Hassan, a spokesman for the opposition in Misrata.
"City in a precarious condition. That is the only source of our fuel. Depot, depot that can supply fuel oil for the next three months," said Hassan told Reuters by telephone.
Qaddafi loyalists hiding tanks and artillery guns at the foot of the hill, under trees and buildings in the vicinity of settlements that are not monitored NATO, which is conducting flight operations in Libya ban. NATO also can not attack around the settlement in order to protect civilian victims.
According to the opposition, in the attack to Misrata, Qaddafi wearing loyalist tactic "shoot and move". Although most of the power of Qaddafi has been destroyed, the latest attacks loyalisnya it makes NATO and frustrated opposition. The Alliance has repeatedly bombed, loyalists continue to besiege the city and the most vital oil port in western Libya.
"The city became one of the bloodiest battlefields in the two-month conflict in Libya. NATO actually works, but Qaddafi troops also continue to work," said Abdelsalam, another opposition spokesman.
Artillery fire from troops to Tunisia Qaddafi also targeting the associated increase in their war against the opposition at the border. Dehiba, a town in Tunisia, is often hit by bullets in recent weeks. Tunisia condemned the shooting was "very dangerous" and ready to take action necessary to protect its sovereignty.
Libyan regime has denied that it deliberately fired on the area of Tunisia. "We told (the shooting), this is a mistake and we apologize. We ask the military to ensure that this case will not happen again," said the Libyan Prime Minister al-Baghdadi Ali al-Mahmoudi.
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