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Troubling reports emerge from the raging battle for Misrata
CNN ^ | April 16, 2011 | CNN Wire Staff

Posted on 04/16/2011 3:14:26 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican

Tripoli, Libya (CNN) -- For all the talk in diplomatic circles this week of finding peace for Libya, one thing remained clear Saturday: The war is raging unabated in Misrata.

In the city under siege from Moammar Gadhafi's forces and mostly inaccessible for journalists, other than those on government-organized tours, residents reported disturbing new developments Saturday.

An opposition council member told CNN Saturday that loyalists were using bombs that look like perfume bottles. Photographs suggested they were shells fired from a grenade launcher that either did not explode on impact or were deliberately masked and placed in populated areas.

Either way, they were proving lethal. The council member said people have had their limbs blown off and children have been killed.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: libya; misrata

1 posted on 04/16/2011 3:14:31 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

Roflol, one bs story after the other.


2 posted on 04/16/2011 3:19:34 PM PDT by org.whodat
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To: MinorityRepublican
And now for the Monty Python Award for utter bizarreness in a military conflict:

— An anchor claimed that a honey bee spelled out Moammar with honey in Darnah. Once again, it was hailed as a miracle and a sign of an upcoming victory for Gadhafi’s forces. The next day, sleeper cells in Darnah launched an attack.
Despite weeks of aerial bombardment by international fighter jets, Gadhafi has shown no signs of acquiescing. He remains as defiant as ever despite calls this week again from global leaders attending a Libya conference in Qatar and a sternly worded newspaper opinion piece by U.S. President Barack Obama, French President Nicolas Sarkozy and British Prime Minister David Cameron.

3 posted on 04/16/2011 3:27:26 PM PDT by robowombat
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Damn, they did say they they hit the milk factory. Poor old bossy the cow. LOL, those ragtags are so full of it. It was just reported last week that one of the ragtags decided he would see what happened if he hit the primer of a large round with a rock and a nail, they carried him and two others off. Then they shot the guy off the roof, turns out he was their look out. You sure those dud mortar rounds were not fired straight up by the ragtags.
4 posted on 04/16/2011 3:59:50 PM PDT by org.whodat
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To: MinorityRepublican

The NATO forces are using square bullets dipped in pig fat.


5 posted on 04/16/2011 5:10:25 PM PDT by Mike Darancette (The heresy of heresies was common sense - Orwell)
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