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View at dusk down Tripoli Street, the main flash point in the battle for Misrata. The tall buildings in the foreground were occupied for weeks by Gadaffi snipers and fighters, and the buildings were so destroyed by fire and bullet/shell holes that they will never be usable again.

I was told that most of the Gadaffi fighters were recovered by their own side, allegedly to be construed as casualties of NATO bombings, but the number of dead here, some 600, is less than the Misuratans say were killed in the battle, where some 1500 Misratans lost their lives.

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Libya Revisited
View at dusk down Tripoli Street, the main flash point in the battle for Misrata. The tall buildings in the foreground were occupied for weeks by Gadaffi snipers and fighters, and the buildings were so destroyed by fire and bullet/shell holes that they will never be usable again.<br /> <br /> I was told that most of the Gadaffi fighters were recovered by their own side, allegedly to be construed as casualties of NATO bombings, but the number of dead here, some 600, is less than the Misuratans say were killed in the battle, where some 1500 Misratans lost their lives.

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