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  • Libyan rebels seize two key oil complexes

    03/31/2011 11:29:13 AM PDT · by bronxville · 14 replies
    CBS News ^ | March 27, 2011 | Staff
    After airstrikes destroy much of government's heavy weaponry in the east, anti-Qaddafi forces seize momentum, push toward capital. RAS LANOUF, Libya - Libyan rebels have seized back a second key oil complex and are pushing west toward Tripoli, after international airstrikes that tipped the balance away from Muammar Qaddafi's military. The rebels seized back the oil refinery of Ras Lanouf on Sunday after taking control of Brega, another oil complex on eastern Libya's coast. Ras Lanouf and Brega were responsible for a large chunk of Libya's 1.5 million barrels of daily exports, which have all but stopped since the uprising...