Gaddafi forces strike back in Bani Walid

Muammar Gaddafi's fighters in Bani Walid have launched artillery strikes and tried to ambush encroaching revolutionary forces at the northern gate of the loyalist stronghold.

Sunday's attack came after the two sides clashed through the night inside the town as Libya's new rulers faced fierce resistance to their efforts to crush the dug-in fighters loyal to the fugitive Gaddafi.

Mortar fire targeted a building where forces aligned with the National Transitional Council (NTC) were taking cover as well as the town's north entrance, kicking up sand and filling the sky with black smoke.
Anti-Gaddafi fighters returned fire with machine guns and rockets.

Despite the heavy fighting, Ahmed Bani, the interim government's military spokesman, said on Saturday that it was only a "matter of days" before the two towns are captured.
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