{"id":342080,"date":"2011-03-27T14:28:23","date_gmt":"2011-03-27T14:28:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/03\/27\/libya-rebels-take-ras-lanuf-continue-push-west\/"},"modified":"2011-03-27T14:28:23","modified_gmt":"2011-03-27T14:28:23","slug":"libya-rebels-take-ras-lanuf-continue-push-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/27\/libya-rebels-take-ras-lanuf-continue-push-west\/","title":{"rendered":"Libya: Rebels Take Ras Lanuf, Continue Push West"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"40.547356188263\">\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/><!-- close google_banner_mid div ---><\/p>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.english.rfi.fr\/africa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/7305b8cerfi-logo-en.jpg\" alt=\"Radio France Internationale (Paris)\" title=\"Visit Radio France Internationale (Paris)\" \/><\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p><!-- begin story layout piece here --><\/p>\n<p>27 March 2011<\/p>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>Libyan rebels on Sunday recaptured the key eastern oil town of Ras Lanuf, and are pushing further west towards the capital, Tripoli. The latest setback to leader Moamar Kadhafi comes a day after rebels took the strategic towns of Ajdabiya and Brega.<\/p>\n<p>Rebels are reportedly manning checkpoints in and out of the Ras Lanuf, 370 kilometres west of the rebel stronghold city of Benghazi.<\/p>\n<p>They marked the town&#8217;s takeover with celebratory gunfire, firing a rocket propelled-grenade in sign of victory.<\/p>\n<div readability=\"25.561403508772\">\n<div readability=\"5.7719298245614\">\n    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/313409afw260x.jpg.jpg\" width=\"260\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/english.aljazeera.net\/news\/africa\/\">Al Jazeera<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fighters near the strategic oil town of Brega:<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Ras Lanuf is just over 200 kilometres from Ajdabiya, which was on Saturday the first town to fall back into rebel hands after a week of coalition air strikes.<\/p>\n<p>There were no signs of any major damage at oil installations of Ras Lanuf, which had fallen to Kadhafi&#8217;s forces on 12 March.<\/p>\n<p>Media reports say the rebels appear to be in control of the entire east of Libya.<\/p>\n<p>Trucks carrying rebel fighters flooded the road to the oil town, with many carrying on to Bin Jawad, a hamlet 50 kilometres further west.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile Sirte, on the Mediterranean coast, was hit overnight Saturday by allied warplanes, with some media reports saying it has become &#8220;a ball of fire&#8221;, with residents fleeing into the desert.<\/p>\n<p><i><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.english.rfi.fr\/africa\/20110327-libyan-rebels-take-ras-lanuf-continue-push-west\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read or Listen to this story on the RFI website<\/a><\/strong><\/i><\/p>\n<p><!-- end story layout piece here --><\/p>\n<p><!-- close google_banner_subbody div ---><\/p>\n<fieldset>\n<legend align=\"center\"><b>More News on allAfrica.com<\/b><\/legend>\n<\/fieldset>\n<p>AllAfrica &#8211; All the Time<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"comments\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a name=\"c|main|main|id|0CU_KvsiB3H0-mG5\"><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here is the original post:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/201103270009.html\" title=\"Libya: Rebels Take Ras Lanuf, Continue Push West\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Libya: Rebels Take Ras Lanuf, Continue Push West<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> 27 March 2011 Libyan rebels on Sunday recaptured the key eastern oil town of Ras Lanuf, and are pushing further west towards the capital, Tripoli. The latest setback to leader Moamar Kadhafi comes a day after rebels took the strategic towns of Ajdabiya and Brega. Rebels are reportedly manning checkpoints in and out of the Ras Lanuf, 370 kilometres west of the rebel stronghold city of Benghazi. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-342080","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-business"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Libya: Rebels Take Ras Lanuf, Continue Push West - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/27\/libya-rebels-take-ras-lanuf-continue-push-west\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Libya: Rebels Take Ras Lanuf, Continue Push West - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"27 March 2011 Libyan rebels on Sunday recaptured the key eastern oil town of Ras Lanuf, and are pushing further west towards the capital, Tripoli. 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