. . COUNTRIES: LIBYA: Libyan Rebels Push West Towards Gadafy Hometown . . Libyan Rebels Push West Towards Gadafy Hometown Irish Times http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2011/0328/breaking2.html . .A steady stream of rebels in pick-up trucks mounted with machineguns drove towards Libyan leader Muammar Gadafy's hometown of Sirte today, seeking to extend their advance west.
.Emboldened by Western-led air strikes against Col Gadafys forces, rebels in the oil-producing North African country have pushed west along the Mediterranean coast to retake a series of towns in short order.
.Reversing earlier losses in a back-and-forth five-week insurgency, they have regained control of all the main oil terminals in eastern Libya, at Es Sider, Ras Lanuf, Brega, Zueitina and Tobruk.
.Al Jazeera reported that the advancing rebels had taken control of the town of Nawfaliyah, about 120km from Sirte.
.A spokesman in Benghazi said rebels based in east Libya captured Sirte today, but a Reuters correspondent in the city said there was no sign that rebel forces were in control.
."We heard from Benghazi that the rebels are in Sirte, but it is not for sure because Gadafy's soldiers are firing rockets from Sirte, so we are not certain," 23-year-old Mohamed, a lawyer turned rebel fighter, said in the town of Ras Lanuf. Rebels were lining up for petrol in the town before heading west in dozens of pick-ups.
.As Col Gadafys birthplace and an important military base, Sirte - about halfway along the coast from the rebel stronghold of Benghazi to Tripoli - has great symbolic and strategic value. If it fell, the rebels would gain a great psychological boost and the road towards the capital would lie open.
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