Days after having claimed control over the town of Zawiya, Libyan rebels are continuing to engage in battles across the strategically important area, with new reports that they continue to unsuccessfully try to occupy the oil refinery.
Rebel spokesmen say they have control over the refinery’s gates, but that regime snipers continue to control the refinery itself. The refinery would be a key part of rebel efforts to cut off the flow of fuel to the capital city.
NATO, for its part, says they don’t believe the rebels actually have enough troops to keep their hold on Zawiya going forward, let alone to attack Tripoli. Still, the rebels believe, as they have so many times in the past, that victory is imminent.
Zawiya’s value lies primarily in it being along the road between Tripoli and Tunisia. Its capture, the latest in a series of captures in the war, has rebels insisting that the peace talks in Tunisia aren’t real and that the war will continue.
It's hard to say what side is "winning" but I know who is losing. The Libyan people.
For us this is just another war being waged so corporations can get their hands on oil. Any pretext that this was only to safeguard the lives of civilians when out the window when our first missles slammed into Tripoli. I'm sure that like all these bloody wars there is more to it than just oil. But the last thing they care about are the civilians who get in the way. Profits always come first, wether it's for the MIC or Oil etc.