JAWAT ALBOGOL
Trip Start
May 29, 2011
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Trip End
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Zintan, LY.62, Libya
Wednesday, May 11, 2011
ON THE MORNING OF 7/5/11,GADDAFI'S FORCES ATTACKED ZINTAN FROM THE EAST IN SOME NUMBERS.
SO,USING WEAPONS THAT THEY HAD OBTAINED FROM GADDAFI BEFORE THE WAR,OR TAKEN BY FORCE FROM HIS MILITIA SINCE,THE REBELS FOUGHT BACK,WITH THE BATTLE CONTINUING FROM 9 AM TO 7-15 PM.
AT THIS TIME THE GADDAFI MILITIAS RAN AWAY,AND THE REBELS ENTERED THE VILLAGE OF JAWAT ALBOGOL,AND OCCUPIED IT.
UNFORTUNATELY THERE WERE STILL SOME GADDAFI SNIPERS ON THE ROOFTOPS OF HOUSES,WITH GRENADES.SOME OF THESE MEN WERE FROM CHAD AND SUDAN.
SO THE REBELS LOST 11 MEN AND 31 WERE WOUNDED.
ONCE THE BATTLE WAS FINISHED,THE REBELS DISCOVERED THE BODY OF A WOMAN WHO HAD BEEN KILLED IN A HOUSE,AND ANOTHER IN A CAVE.
ON THE FOLLOWING DAY THEY DISCOVERED 4 GADDAFI SOLDIERS AND ONE MAN FROM CHAD WHO HAD BEEN KILLED BY THEIR OWN SIDE FOR REFUSING TO FIRE UPON CIVILIAN PEOPLE.
OSAMA HAD SUFFERED A LOT DURING THIS WAR.HIS HOUSE WAS IN ONE OF THE MOST SHELLED DISTRICTS OF ZINTAN,AND HIS WIFE AND CHILDREN,FEARING FOR THEIR LIVES HAD GONE TO STAY IN A SCHOOL IN A LESS EXPOSED POSITION FOR THE LAST FEW WEEKS.THERE WAS NO ELECTRICITY OR MRUNNING WATER,AND THE WATER TANK FOR WASHING WAS RUNNING LOW.
FOOD AND BOTTLED WATER WAS HANDED OUT AT A DISTRIBUTION POINT FREE OF CHARGE,BUT WAS RATIONED.
