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Gaddafi vows to remain in Libya as rebels advance: Your friendly-Sunday-Libya-never-ending-no-fly-zone-peaceful-mission-war update. Whew.
Libyan rebel forces on Sunday entered the oil town of Brega and fought street battles there with forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi, a rebel spokesman said, in the biggest offensive in eastern Libya in weeks."The news coming from there is there is a street war going on between Gaddafi troops and the rebels, and 127 are wounded from our side," Abdulrahman Busm, an official in the rebel National Transitional Council, said by telephone.
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