Libyan Rebels Regain Key City After Airstrikes

From AOL:

Libyan rebels regained control of the eastern gateway city of Ajdabiya on Saturday after international airstrikes on Moammar Gadhafi’s forces, in the first major turnaround for an uprising that once appeared on the verge of defeat. In a western city the opposition lost to Gadhafi, a resident said the regime’s security agents had lists of rebel sympathizers and were dragging them from their homes.

Ajdabiya’s sudden fall to Gadhafi’s troops spurred the swift U.N. resolution authorizing international action in Libya, and its return to rebel hands on Saturday came after a week of airstrikes and missiles against the Libyan leader’s military. On the road into the city on Saturday, at least eight blackened Gadhafi tanks lay on the ground…

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