JOIN USNational Transitional Council (NTC) fighters took full control of Sirte airport. They had taken it two weeks ago, but then lost it again. Sirte’s pro-Gadhafi defenders have used sniper, rocket and artillery fire to fight off two full-scale NTC assaults on the city in the past week.
Each side has accused the other of endangering civilians. “They’re shelling constantly. There’s indiscriminate fire within individual neighborhoods and from one area to another,” said Hassan, a resident who escaped the city.
Civilians have been fleeing Sirte, a coastal city of 1,00,000 that is also under Nato aerial attack, and Libyan authorities have asked the United Nations for fuel for ambulances to evacuate wounded.
The United Nations is sending trucks of clean drinking water for civilians crammed into vehicles leaving Sirte.
Gadhafi son on most-wanted list
Interpol placed another of ousted leader Gadhafi’s sons on the equivalent of its most-wanted list, placing pressure on the government of Niger to surrender a man accused of overseeing bloody repressions. Al-Saadi Gadhafi is living under house arrest in the Western African country’s capital, Niamey, after fleeing Libya earlier this month.