- Phoenix1330
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- Fabled Legendary Member
Duracell.
I don't keep going and going and going and...
but i Start, and just don't Stop.
So what if the saxophone is black?
it has better tone the the gold one.
damn straight i play Jazz.
a direct copy and paste from Al Jazeera's live blog:
* Libyan troops captured by rebels in Misurata said on Saturday the army had been ordered to retreat from the western port, and a rebel spokesman said soldiers had booby trapped bodies and buildings as they fled.
* A spokesman for Libyan rebels said the city of Misurata was freed from Muammar Gaddafi's forces on Saturday after a siege of Libya's third-largest city lasting nearly two months.
* The United States launched its first Predator drone strike in Libya on Saturday.
* NATO jets hit a target near Gaddafi's compound in central Tripoli early on Saturday, which the government described as a car park but which Reuters reporters said looked like a bunker.
* China has warned Britain over plans to send military officers to advise Libyan rebels struggling against Gaddafi's forces, saying that Beijing opposes any steps that go beyond the mandate of a UN resolution.
* NATO took command of Western military operations in Libya on March 31 and has about 200 aircraft at its disposal. It says its aircraft have conducted a total of 3,438, of which 1,432 have been strike sorties. NATO defines strike sorties as missions intended to identify and engage targets, but which do not always involve the use of munitions. Western military operations began on March 19.
* NATO conducted 138 sorties on Friday, including 59 strike missions. It said targets included:
- Two command and control bunkers in Tripoli.
- Three tanks, one bunker, one early warning radar and one surface to air radar in the vicinity of Misrata.
- Two tanks, two bunkers, buildings in the vicinity of Zintan.
- Three ammunition storage bunkers in the vicinity of Mizdah.
- One tank, one armoured vehicle in the vicinity of Ras Lanuf.
* A total of 18 NATO vessels have been patrolling the Mediterranean to enforce a UN-mandated arms embargo. On Friday, 47 vessels were hailed to determine destination and cargo. One vessel was boarded.
* A total of 571 vessels have been hailed and 14 have been boarded since the beginning of arms embargo operations. Five ships have been diverted.
* Of the 28 NATO states, only France, Britain, the United States, Belgium, Canada, Norway and Denmark have been conducting air strikes. Others have contributed aircraft and ships to support operations, enforce a no-fly zone and an arms embargo.