Libya

• he Reuters news agency reports that the Libyan armed forces, loyal to Muammar Gaddafi, have cleared "armed gangs" from the oil town of Brega in the east, an army source said on Sunday on Libyan state TV.
  
  "Brega has been cleansed of armed gangs," the military source was quoted on Libyan state TV as saying.
  
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  12:08pm

  Our correspondent from Tripoli shared the interesting accounts of the battle, that she heard from the journalists who were taken on this trip to Ras Lanuf.
  
  "It doesn't appear that the army has been engaged in Ras Lanuf, the soldiers that the journalists met when they were there, introduced themselves as volunteers.
  
  "Although, it's a given that Colonel Gaddafi has access to superior forces but it seems he is not deploying everything in hand. He may not even have deployed the supposedly best armed, best trained Khamis brigade, on the Ras Lanuf effort.
  
  "He (Gaddafi) has for him, fighting, enough people who are volunteers from other parts of the country, a lot of them to have come from an area which has tribal ties to Gaddafi to overwhelm the untrained, poorly supplied, poorly prepared rebel forces.
  
  "On the ground, there is no evidence of big weapons, large-scale military equipment, now that being said, they had an awful lot of time to clear the area before they brought foreign journalists to this trip, which was not a free trip."
  
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  12:06pm

  According to Al Jazeera's Anit McNaught, "Yesterday, after waiting for most of the day, and after night had fallen, a foreign media contingent was escorted to Ras Lanuf to see for themselves what
  the government wanted them to see.
  "And it would appear, from people who I have spoken to who were on that trip, the residents that they were allowed to speak to were expressing their great support and loyalty to Colonel Gaddafi."
  
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  12:02pm

  Al Jazeera's Anita McNaught reports from Tripoli that, "The Syrian foreign ministry has had to issue a denial that it has offered any military support to Colonel Gaddafi.
  "There were rumours here that a Syrian fighter pilot had been shot down in a jet.
  "So Syrian foreign ministry has said that it is offering neither seaborne nor airborne nor any other form of
  military assistance to the Gaddafi regime."
  
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  10:17am

  Al Jazeera's Nick Clark reports from Tobruk that, "The frontline is moving eastwards in favour of Gaddafi.
  "But there is huge amount of resilience still, they (rebel forces) still think they can see Gaddafi off without a doubt. They are all proclaiming that ultimately they will win.
  "East of the country is hugely anti-Gaddafi, the reason for that is that they have been deprived by Gaddafi of the infrastructure and teh oil wealth that has been coming into Libya for years."
  
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  9:59am

  Speaking about the Arab League's support for the imposition of no-fly zone over Libya, Shadi Hamid, deputy director Brookings Centre Doha, told Al Jazeera that, "This is a big step as the Arab world has reached some consensus on it.
  
  "Gaddafi has been trying to use the narrative that the west is against him but now Arabs have come in support of the west's proposal for a no-fly zone.
  
  "And it was a pre-condition that the Arab countries support it so the coast is clear to move forward on it."
  
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  8:19am

  Our correspondent, Nick Clark also reported that the Libyan people want the no-fly zone to be imposed.