Another setback for the anti-Qaddafi forces:
Groups of Libyan rebels and civilians have fled from the eastern town of Ajdabiya after a rebel armoured unit was hit by apparent NATO air strikes, allowing government troops to advance. … General Abdel Fattah Younes, the rebel military commander, said in Benghazi that four people – two fighters and two medics – were killed in the attack, while 14 were wounded and another six people were missing.
Al Jazeera’s Laurence Lee, in Benghazi, says reports are emerging that it might not have been NATO that hit a rebel armoured unit outside Brega. He says it might instead have been a light plane used by Gaddafi forces, suggesting that they are getting arms from outside.
From EA:
Little overnight news from Libya, but there is this small nugget — "Abdel Fattah Younes, the defected head of the rebel military, confirmed for the first time that the opposition forces have received foreign weapons: anti-tank guns from Qatar". … The significance here is that Younes, with statements like this, is trying to show that the opposition military is now under control (his) and beginning to organise. That is a response to stories, such as the feature in EA on Thursday, of an ill-prepared, uncoordinated army with no clear direction.
(Photo: Rebel fighters react after delivering dead and wounded comrades at a hospital in Ajdabiya on April 7, 2011. Libyan insurgents and civilians stampeded out of Ajdabiya on rumours that loyalist forces were at the gates of the eastern town, hours after an air strike tore into the rebels' defences. By Odd Andersen/AFP/Getty Images)
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