Misrata

Or, to put it more bluntly, he ordered his army to inflict starvation on every man, woman and child in Misrata.

Turkish hospital ship is waiting outside Misrata's rebel-held port for coalition bombing to give it a safe passage.

"Everybody from Misrata wants to see him, " Dewa said later, after the body was moved again.

Now it thinks that, precisely because it has a softer and less martial reputation, it may be ideally placed to help out in Misrata.

Transitional government forces had put the body on show in a cold store in Misrata while they argued over what to do with it.

NATO airstrikes against eight Qaddafi warships -- some of which had mined Misrata's port -- will also provide some relief to the population.

NATO says British and Canadian warships beat back speedboats that were trying to attack the port in Misrata.

General Younis said that without Nato action, Misrata residents faced extermination within a week.

But the coast guard commandant denied that his vessels were used to attack Misrata or any other Libyan city.

NATO said the unmanned aircraft destroyed a multiple rocket launcher used by pro-Gadhafi forces near Misrata.

Reports from Libya say that rebel forces have made new gains against government troops around the rebel-held city of Misrata.

The rebel authorities in Misrata say they believe there may be hundreds of victims, but so far no-one has made an official complaint.

What happens to Misrata, in other words, could define the extent of the coalition's objectives, at least in the short term.

The fragments found in Misrata were apparently produced in a year before the convention was adopted.

Anti-Gadhafi fighters from the town of Misrata hold the southern entrance to Sirte but have been unable to punch through Gadhafi defenses.

A Misrata Military Council spokesman said Gadhafi had been shot and wounded in Sirte and died in an ambulance en route to Misrata.

Report Libya: Sirte has pushed all Misrata brigades out of their area. and is rebuilding its resistance groups.

In Misrata, at least 47 people also were wounded in the fighting, during which Mr. Gadhafi's forces fired on a makeshift trauma center.

He said that more than 80 missiles fell on Misrata port, in the 24 hours before he was evacuated from the city.

"It could have ended Misrata's siege many days ago, " he said.

And we are, with you, particularly concerned at the moment about the situation in Misrata.

The hardened Misrata fighters, who launched their assault on Sirte last week, are tightening the noose around the coastal city that Col.

A rebel spokesman in another Libyan city Misrata told the BBC that fighting was continuing for control of the main roads through the city.

His photos showing house-to-house fighting in Misrata's main street on Tuesday were released by Getty before reports of his injury emerged.

Report Misrata: 7 large explosions and many civilians die as market place was turned into a Battlefield was once again by rebel infighting.

At least one person in Misrata has been waiting for a call from the NTC.

With Misrata to the east in the rebels' hands, Colonel Qaddafi and his loyalists had no way to flee Tripoli but into the sea.

But developments in the besieged city of Misrata in the past few days could be one of them.

Green resistance reinforcements have entered parts of Misrata causing great Shock to Misrata Brigades near sirte.

The French Foreign Minister, Alain Juppe said Wednesday the situation in Misrata could not continue and he would contact the head of NATO.

Libyans from outside Misrata need special permission to enter the town unless they slip in with a foreign journalist.

Contrary to Islamic tradition, his body is yet to be buried and lies in a cold storage room in Misrata.

Most food supplies used to arrive by sea at the ports of Tripoli and Misrata, Libya's commercial hub farther east.

The Al Hikma hospital has become Misrata's trauma hospital since the main city hospital was shelled early in the fighting.

Witnesses report shelling and rocket attacks by pro-Gadhafi forces around Misrata port where hundreds of civilians have been hunkering down.

"The situation is just confined to a number of pockets of violence and snipers scattered in different areas of Misrata, " he added.

In Misrata, which withstood a three-month siege and is the country's third city, similarly sturdy groups have been formed.

The government in Tripoli said it had "liberated" Misrata from rebels and declared a cease-fire there.

Libyan government forces shelled the besieged rebel-held port of Misrata Sunday, a day after officials signaled a change in tactics.

Rebel spokesmen in Misrata said their forces were now in a valley not far from the town.

NATO says it has destroyed a number of armed vehicles of loyalists forces around Misrata in recent days.

On Friday, NATO warships intercepted Gadhafi forces as they tried to mine Misrata harbor.

Col. Gadhafi was captured by fighters from Misrata, who brought him back to the city as a trophy.

After Gadhafi died, his body was flown to a hospital in Misrata by helicopter from a rebel field hospital near Sirte.

Rebel fighters converging in armoured cars from Zawiya in the west and Misrata in the east quickly swept through the city from both sides.

Libyan rebels strengthened their grip on Misrata, the city closest to the capital, Tripoli, which is still in rebel hands.

On Thursday morning, the Misrata fighters had mopped up areas of town where snipers had been holding out and taken the conference center.

Rebel forces drove Qaddafi's troops back from Misrata last month, ending the suffocating siege of the strategically located city.

They have tightened their siege of Misrata, 210km (130 miles) to its east, and pushed into rebel strongholds along the coastline.

One source here in Benghazi with close connections to Misrata said all the tribes there were fighting against Colonel Gaddafi's army.

Gadhafi was shot and wounded in Sirte and died in an ambulance en route to Misrata, said Misrata Military Council spokesman Fathi Bashagha.

Nato has intensified its air strikes on the forces of the Libyan leader Colonel Gaddafi attacking the rebel-held city of Misrata.

Rebels in the western city of Misrata have apparently halted Qaddafi's artillery bombardment of the city center.

They alleged that Libyan forces fighting in cities including Misrata had perpetrated atrocities against civilians.

Some Misrata brigade commanders are said to have told the town's residents never to return.

According to the BBC, the rebel militia in Misrata has pushed back government forces a few kilometers in several directions.

French fighter jets shot down a Libyan government warplane over the city of Misrata on Thursday.

Relief workers say more than 200 people have died in Misrata since the uprising began seven weeks ago against Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi.

Fighting units from Misrata, in particular, have been accused of venting their fury on pro-Qaddafi people.

Broadcasting revolutionary songs, news, and debate, Radio Free Libya Misrata is a bastion of the rebellion against Muammar Gaddafi's regime.

Colonel Gaddafi declared a ceasefire on Friday. But soon afterwards his troops attacked rebel positions in Benghazi and Misrata.

According to Nato, it intercepted small boats being used by Gaddafi loyalists off the coast of Misrata on Friday morning to plant mines.

Relieving Misrata is the overwhelming humanitarian concern of the coalition.

Nato says the attack destroyed a government rocket launcher near the rebel-held city of Misrata.

The three bodies had been held in cold storage in Misrata since Gadhafi was captured near his hometown of Sirte on Thursday.

Then the port may have to be secured by outsiders.

As refugees gathered, the Misrata fighters checked their names against lists of suspected Gadhafi loyalists.

Efforts are continuing to evacuate more injured Libyans and migrant workers from the besieged city of Misrata on Libya's western coast.

Groups of weeping young men can often be seen outside Al Hekma hospital in Misrata after one of their comrades has been killed.

In Misrata, Libya, a child plays on a destroyed tank abandoned in a playground.

On Friday, an IOM-chartered ship left the eastern Libyan town of Benghazi for Misrata.

Rebels were reportedly fighting units of the regular army in the western cities of Misrata and Zawiya.

Green resistance has entered Misrata as was reported yesterday and heavy fighting continues today.

The group, Human Rights Watch, is also accusing pro-Gadhafi forces of using dangerous cluster bombs, banned by most countries, in Misrata.

Meanwhile, however, the situation in Misrata, the rebels' isolated outpost in the west and Libya's third-biggest city, remains desperate.

He issued a thinly veiled threat to attack Col. Gadhafi's forces still on the offensive in the cities of Ajdabiya and Misrata.

Mohammed Ali, an IT engineer at Misrata's main hospital, said that waves of air strikes began shortly after midnight on Wednesday.

Misrata's hospital is overrun with casualties. Locals are at last getting paid, but many are still homeless.

For residents of besieged Misrata, all it takes is a flick of the dial to tune into freedom.

U. N. and Libyan officials say they reached an an agreement Sunday to allow aid workers safe passage to Misrata.

Colonel Qaddafi's hometown of Sirte, which lies between Ras Lanuf and Misrata, has not risen up against him.

Mr. Juppe, speaking on France-Info radio, also urged the European Union to do more to get humanitarian aid to Misrata.

On March 30th coalition aircraft sank five government ships blocking the supply of humanitarian aid to the city.

Misrata's port, which has received a trickle of aid and supplies, is its only link to the outside world.

"Save our dear Misrata, " goes one. Streets and shops in the district are festooned with green flags.

But soon afterwards his troops attacked rebel positions in Benghazi and Misrata.

NATO warships, meanwhile, kept the supply lines by sea open to the besieged city of Misrata.

Earlier in the day the family was watching an opposition television report on the victims of recent shelling in Misrata.

Pandya says another boatload of migrants will leave Benghazi for Misrata next week.

Younes said NATO was causing hundreds of civilian deaths in Libya's third largest city, Misrata, 200 kilometers east of Tripoli.

However, forces loyal to leader Moammar Gadhafi continue to strike rebel-held strongholds at Ajdabiya and Misrata.

Relative quiet has returned to Misrata itself.

Rebels suffered over 700 injured on all Fronts of sirtecombined have been flown to Benghazi the hospitals of misrata are too full.

Residents said pro-Gadhafi forces are on the offensive in both Misrata and Zintan, and report civilian casualties.

In Misrata, Qaddafi's forces mixed their tanks and other heavy weapons with civilians to hinder NATO targeting.

A truck driver in his fifties, he fled with his family from Misrata in April for the relative safety of Benghazi.

But I am not sure I have ever seen a community transformed quite so comprehensively as here in Libya's besieged city of Misrata.

The sites were around Libyan capital Tripoli and western region of Misrata.

The rebel fighters who captured the former ruler were from the city of Misrata.

The rebels, who have sustained heavy casualties, expect when they enter Zliten to repeat the house-to-house combat that won them Misrata.

Missiles struck air defence sites in the capital, Tripoli, and Misrata.

That is not true in Misrata, the country's third-biggest city, three hours' drive along the coast road to the east.

On Thursday evening, opposition forces gained control of Misrata, a coastal city 130 miles east of Tripoli.

Misrata, with a population of 300, 000, is the largest town controlled by rebels outside the rebel-held east of the country.

Imports have been rerouted to Tunisia because of fighting in Misrata and Western sanctions against Tripoli.

In the besieged coastal city of Misrata, they have steadily pushed back Col. Gadhafi's fighters.

He also said Italy is seeking to send medical supplies and other aid to the embattled city of Misrata.

Misrata is surrounded on three sides by government forces.

His body remains on display in a cold store in Misrata.

There were reports of Misrata militias shooting unarmed Tawerghans.

This is the first night of major, major activities and major bombings by the international community around Misrata.

Abdul, a doctor in the western city of Misrata, has told the BBC that the local hospital has recorded 16 deaths and 46 injuries.

Witnesses reported that pro-Gadhafi forces also attacked the rebel-held western Libyan towns of Zentan, Nalout and Misrata.

At one point, al-Obeidy told her fellow citizens in eastern Libya and the besieged western city of Misrata to be strong.

In Misrata a large field kitchen is sending out meals to the troops.

He lambasted NATO for doing too little for Misrata.

Children wait with their mother to disembark a ship that evacuated them from Misrata to Benghazi on April 15.

But the big test is bringing help to Misrata.

People [in Misrata] feel deep pain, and depression.

Failure to retake Misrata dealt a big blow to the regime fighters'morale.

The picture of what's happening in the besieged city of Misrata remains unclear.

Maybe not for the people in Misrata or Tripoli, we are used to business.

It took Seydou Abdou, a worker from Niger, 45 days to get to Agadez from Misrata in northwestern Libya.

For the past few years he has been coach of Misrata's premiership club, Swihli.

Government targets in and around Misrata are being pummelled every day, but NATO has a dilemma.

Misrata, Libya: Rebel fighters look out a window as they engage with troops backing Muammar Gaddafi in the besieged city