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REUTERS But Berber tribesmen in the Nafusa Mountains to the south-west of Tripoli are closing in on Gharyan, a heavily fortified garrison town 60 miles from the capital and strategically situated on Libya’s main North-South road.
The advance is being threatened by a sustained army assault on Wazin, the only border crossing with Tunisia that is controlled by the rebels, and the nearby Berber mountain town of Nalut.
If either were to fall, the Gaddafi regime would stand a strong chance of regaining control of the Nafusa mountains by choking off supplies to the rebels and starving their sympathisers into submission
Friday, July 8, 2011
NATO to Nafusa Mountains
Libya: Gaddafi army attacks supply route as rebels make advance
