Though early reports from the city indicated that the attacks were a serious threat, more recent reports indicate that rebel forces have totally routed the mercenaries loyal to Moammar Gadhafi who attacked Brega.
Indeed, the attack on the central oil city was seen as one of the first major counterattacks by the regime, which have lost virtually the whole country at this point, and the hundreds of Gadhafi troops were chased out of town to a nearby university campus, which was quickly surrounded by rebel troops.
Rebels celebrated the repelling of the attack on the city, and reports from the ground indicate that the city has been entirely cleared of regime forces. The victory appears to have reinforced the belief amongst the protesters that the regime is on the way out.
The protest movement controls most of the oil producing regions in Libya, and has even restored some oil exports in the far east. Gadhafi’s forces control most of Tripoli, and is contesting rebel control in the west.
The best way to put fear into the mercenaries to copy what the Chechen fighters used to do when they captures mercenaries in Chechnya. They used to chop their arms & legs and send them home. Of course they used to gather the captured soldires and let them watch the chopping and then let them go which they passed what they saw to the others. There should not be any mercy upon the mercenaries when they get captured because they are emotionless thugs who kill just for money like the Blackwater killers with American tax money.