Gadhafi warplanes strike rebel-held Libya city

[oberliner]

Source: AFP

TOBRUK, Libya (AP) — A rebel official says Moammar Gadhafi's warplanes have bombed a strategic opposition-held city as his forces try to push ahead in an offensive into the east.

The official, Ahmed al-Zwei, says warplanes struck at weapons depots in the city of Ajdabiya on Monday, trying to cut off supplies to rebel fighters at the front nearby. Al-Zwei, who is on the Ajdabiya city council, says there were wounded in the strikes, but he could not say how many.

Ajdabiya lies just east of the oil port of Brega, where rebels and pro-Gadhafi forces were locked in fierce battles on Sunday. Al-Zwei says rebel fighters are still in control of the port.

Gadhafi's forces are trying to take back the opposition-held eastern half of Libya.

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[pinboy3niner]

1. Hospital and military camp reportedly hit

Reports say that today's air strikes on Ajdabiya hit part of a hospital and military camp.

No causalities have been reported. And local residents are refusing to leave the town.

http://blogs.aljazeera.net/live/africa/libya-live-blog-march-14

(AT 10:37am timestamp.)

[SkyDaddy7]

2. According to RT these air strikes are fake...

Just a ploy by the West to attack Gaddafi & set up a no-fly Zone.

[ProgressiveProfessor]

3. The sourcing is questionable

Blogs, even those hosted by AJE are not fact checked etc. The other day there was a similar report of nerve gas being used elsewhere in the ME, obviously bogus.

They may be well meant posters, it may be astroturffing. Regardless they all need to be looked at with some care.

[SkyDaddy7]

6. NO, I do not believe what they are saying! YIKES!

I should have made that clear...Obviously the air strikes are real many different reporters on the ground have reported this. I guess my point was to show RT has an agenda & those who are not aware of it need to be.

[dipsydoodle]

4. Sometimes

the first casualty of war is truth or maybe more importantly knowing what the truth really is.

[SkyDaddy7]

7. Sorry I gave the false impression I believed...

what RT was reporting...NO! RT is a propaganda tool for Russia in the West. The air strikes in Libya have been caught on film & reported by multiple news agencies.

[dipsydoodle]

9. Doesn't change the fact

there is a certain amount of spoofing going on.

[SkyDaddy7]

11. Spoofing, huh?

On the part of RT & the Russians? Or Aljazeera & the West?...LOL! I can't believe I even typed that...But anything is possible.

Who be "spoofing"?

[dipsydoodle]

12. Some of the information coming out by twitter

which not only couldn't be verified by the media but to which they found evidence to the contrary on the ground when they reached the areas mentioned.

[oberliner]

5. You believe that?

It's a ploy?

[SkyDaddy7]

8. NO NO NO! Sorry I should have made that clear! YIKES!

No, I understand exactly what RT is...RT is Russia's propaganda tool aimed at the West. Again, I should have made that clear.

[oberliner]

10. Oh ok - got it

Thanks for clearing up the confusion!