 Image uploaded from a quicklink (Image by Unknown Owner) Details DMCA | Fighters belonging to Libya's ruling National Transitional Council have captured the town of Bani Walid, one of two last remaining strongholds of the country's deposed leader, Muammar Gaddafi. NTC military commanders said on Monday that they were encountering pockets of resistance in the town, located about 170km southeast of Tripoli. But they said they had claimed about 95 per cent of it. "We are very much in the centre of Bani Walid. They [Libyan fighters] came through here just over an hour ago and they are saying this is an almost complete liberation of the town," Al Jazeera's Tony Birtley reported from inside Bani Walid. |
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