Libyan rebels regain territory and main oil terminals

LIBYAN rebels pushed further west last night to retake more territory abandoned by Muammar Gaddafi’s retreating forces, which have been weakened by Western air strikes.

Emboldened by the capture of the strategic town of Ajdabiyah with the help of foreign warplanes on Saturday, the rebels have regained the initiative and are back in control of all the main oil terminals in the eastern half of the North African country.

“There are no Gaddafi soldiers here. We control all the town,” rebel fighter Youssef Ahmed, 22, said in the town of Bin Jawad, 525km east of Tripoli.