Sources have stated that Muammar Gaddafi’s tanks were rolling into Benghazi, past shattered homes and charred cars and the widespread fear was of the retribution to come against those who had supported the revolution and some had managed to escape but many were trapped, expecting the worst.



It was stated that there was almost a wishful belief that sheer fervor and justness of the cause would win the day and there was also strong nationalist sentiment that “No foreign intervention, Libyans can do it alone” was the message of a poster much seen in the city, highlighting uneasiness about what had happened in Afghanistan and Iraq.


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Gaddafi could, perhaps, have taken Benghazi at the time, he had a much larger force for the attack than the one laying siege to Misrata in the west and the rebels there were better armed and prepared, but the regime commanders have chosen, instead to withdraw and set themselves up outside the city.



Meanwhile the tide of the war had turned against the Gaddafi regime with daily bombing by the French and the British, although it was the French who has tended to get more credit on the ground, the strikes, for a while, becoming known as “Sarkozies”.

 


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