Reply #34: Pro-Gaddafi fighters filmed firing Scud missile in battle for Sirte [View All]

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Source: The Telegraph

Amateur footage captured from a pro-Gaddafi fighter is purported to show a Scud missile being fired in Sirte as the bloody battle for the loyalist stronghold reaches a crescendo.

11:05AM BST 08 Oct 2011


The video is reported to have been discovered on a mobile phone belonging to a fighter loyal to Muammar Gaddafi and is alleged to show the launch of a Soviet-made Scud missile from the former leader's hometown of Sirte.


The footage was obtained when Libyan National Transitional Council (NTC) forces, having launched a furious 'final offensive' on the loyalist stronghold, advanced into areas of the city previously held by pro-Gaddafi forces.


In August, a Nato warplane shot down a Scud missile fired from the coastal city where fighters loyal to the deposed dictator have been continuing to battle the rebellion against him despite the NTC taking power in the country.


And only last month, Nato said its fighter jets destroyed two Scud missiles that were part of the former leader's arsenal near Bani Walid.

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/libya/libya-video/8815069/Libya-Pro-Gaddafi-fighters-filmed-firing-Scud-missile-in-battle-for-Sirte.html