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"What we would like is a rational and convincing account of what happened. We would also like to know why the attack was carried out on our soldiers while a Gaddafi force, which advanced towards Ajdabiya on three fronts, was not attacked in any way."
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Rebel fighters wept as they hugged each other kneeling on the floor of a corridor with bloodstained uniforms piled up in the corner.
- Along with the grief there was deep anger, directed not this time at Muammar
- Gaddafi, but the West, for the massacre of their comrades.
A militiaman in a coma with severe burns all over his body, his face half-hidden
by a thick layer of white antiseptic cream, was carried into Ajdabiya by other
fighters shouting in anger and in grief.
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er area, Yasin Ibadullah had just seen what remained of another
victim, his friend Saleh Mohammed Ali, and he was in no mood to hear about the problems pilots may have in finding targets in a
fluctuating frontline. "They have all the equipment, all the technology, we haven't got them," he shouted. "They must have
seen we were going forward, we were attacking, we were going forward. Why did they do this? Do they want Gaddafi to win?"
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death of citizens
death of men across the cross of war and war zone civil strife
'The soldiers were not the only ones to express their anger at the botched attack. Dr Suleiman Rifadi, studying an X-ray of one of the wounded,
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asked:
"Instead of attacking us, why don't they bomb the Gaddafi troops?"
s has often been the case in this conflict, there was confusion about what led up to the pulverising bombing. Some of the rebels said they were going towards the city, under regime control after changing hands several times. There was also a sudden retreat, a recurring feature of this campaign.
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It is not the first such incident. Last Saturday 13 rebel fighters were killed 10 miles along the same road after Nato jets, believed to be A-10 Warthog tankbusters, responded to "celebratory firing" from an anti-aircraft gun
into the air with missile launches. Three vehicles, including an ambulance, were destroyed. It is to precisely prevent such "collateral damage" that a British military team is currently in Benghazi putting in a secure communications system between Benghazi and Nato headquarters at Mons in Belgium.
The revolutionaries have reached an agreement with Nato to paint the top of their vehicles yellow to be identified as "friendly forces".
- A rebel commander, Mustafa Gadr, claimed that this has been adhered to by his fighters.
But while some cars have giant red, black and green flags tied to their roofs,
_______________Did one expect an army where there were men? Fighting for their lives?
Yellow in this instance is the colour of friendship not cowardice .
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there is little evidence of the yellow markings in the field among the dozens of cars and trucks, most of them privately owned, which 'pour' forward
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care pours not cars
One series of attacks for which Nato was absolved of blame by the rebel government was at oilfields at Sarir and Messala, south of Ajdabiya. The Tripoli regime had claimed RAF planes had targeted the field, causing extensive damage.
every day.
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But the rebels had little time for such explanations.///////////
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"This time there was no one firing at anything in the sky, so they could not
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have thought that they were
under attack," said Ahmed Misani, a 33-year-old engineer fighting for the r
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revolution. "They could not have thought that we were Gaddafi men. We would like to know what they
[the pilots] were thinking when they dropped those bombs.
[the pilots] were thinking when they dropped those bombs.
what thinking?
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They would not see the children of the men who died.
the children of th e dead
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We would like to know what we should tell them."
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