The Colonel is Not Beaten Yet; The Battle for Libya  

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Jenis: Article from Bulletin/Magazine
Dalam koleksi: The Economist (http://search.proquest.com/) vol. 399 no. 8727 (Apr. 2011), page 41-42.
Topik: War; Dictators; Rebellions; Coalitions; Many Countries

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After rebel forces retook Ajdabiya and the oil-refining towns of Ras Lanuf and Brega, it seemed that Muammar Qaddafi's troops might crumble fast in the face of Western air attacks. But that hope was fleeting. At a hastily assembled conference in London on March 29th, attended by nearly 40 delegations representing the international coalition that is enforcing UN Security Resolution 1973, the turn of events on the ground saw Libyan government forces dramatically regain the initiative. And that prompted a more sober assessment of the rebels' progress. The only emerging pattern is one of wildly see-sawing fortunes, as coastal towns change hands with almost metronomic regularity. There is still no sign that the rebels have a proper chain of command. Khalifa Belqasim Haftar, a former general who has returned from exile in the United States, is their commander-in-chief, with Colonel Qaddafi's former interior minister, Abdel Fatah Younis, as his chief of staff. But the units of the regular army that defected seem to have stayed largely out of the fray, leaving the fighting to untrained youths. Time after time, they have rushed frantically along the main roads, only to run into ambushes laid by the colonel's snipers dug into the roadside. The priorities just now are to halt the advance of loyalist troops, bring some relief to the civilians in Misrata and encourage members of the regime to start looking for a way out.

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