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Pro-regime militia fighters pound the city. So far, resistance fighters kept them from entering and gaining control. GNC president Mohammed Megarief promised to come, but fighting kept him away.
Earlier he founded the National Front for the Salvation of Libya (NFSL). It's a CIA/Saudi financed anti-Jamahiriya group. It operated from October 1981 - May 2012. It actively opposed Gaddafi.
Several times it tried to oust him by coup d'etats and failed. After his demise, it transformed itself into the National Front Party. It won three of 59 seats in the July 2012 GNC election. Mahmoud Jabril's National Forces Alliance (NFA) got 39 seats.
On October 18, the London Guardian headlined "Confusion rife as Libyan army storms town of Bani Walid."
So far, army units hadn't succeeded as planned. Fierce fighting continues. "We started to enter Bani Walid. We are not far away from the center," said army spokesman Mohammed al-Gandus. "There was a big battle between Bani Walid people and our army."Gaddafi supporters are "hiding" there, he added. "They are fighting very well because they know they are going to die soon."
Reports of their demise may turn out exaggerated. Last fall, NATO said Bani Walid resistance was defeated. A year later, their struggle continues. Millions of Libyans want freedom, not repressive occupation under puppet pro-Western rule.
They haven't quit fighting and won't throughout the country. Bani Walid is one of many battlegrounds. Eruptions can break out anywhere anytime. They won't stop until freedom is won.
At the same time, daily violence causes so much harm to so many. So-called NATO liberation delivers living hell. Mass killing, destruction, and human misery accompany every NATO campaign and remain when they end.
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