Battle for Libyan refinery goes on
Heavy clashes broke out today between rebels and loyalists fighting for control of Libya’s only functioning oil refinery in the western city of Zawiya, as the opposition tried to cut off fuel supplies to the regime’s stronghold of Tripoli.
A rebel field commander in Zawiya, Osama Arusi, said the fighting has shut down an oil pipeline to the capital, where a third of Libya’s six million people live. The rebels have surrounded the refinery, which supplies oil and gas to the capital.
