Libya altercation: Rebels against for Zawiya lubricant refinery
 

Libyan forces dedicated to Col Muammar Gaddafi are fighting rebels as a service to control of a coastal fuel refinery in Zawiya, at best 50km (30 miles) west of Tripoli.

Heavy gunfire was reported next-door the refinery complex, which supplies lubricant and gas to the Libyan capital.

Despite their brand-new gains, rebels mask continued inspirit from rockets and snipers in a sixth date of fighting towards Zawiya.

Restraint of the description village is seen as distinguished because it straddles a major road linking Tripoli to Tunisia.

If antithetical forces could maintain authority of Zawiya, they would be suffering with Tripoli surrounded on secure, with Nato - which has been enforcing a UN-mandated no-fly locality to keep safe civilians since Cortege - blocking tons access.
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While the streets of Zawiya are now festooned with the red, dark and green fail used sooner than the rebels, earlier on Wednesday the unseasoned flags of Col Gaddafi's loyalists were notwithstanding fluttering from a refinery construction, Reuters reported.



The BBC's Matthew Quotation says that Tripoli appears "at its most unprotected"

"There are some snipers inside the refinery facility. We lead the gates of the refinery," freedom fighter fighter Abdulkarim Kashaba told the agency in a a call interview.