Libya rebels flee oil port under barrage

Friday, March 11, 2011

RAS LANOUF, Libya -- With barrages of tank and artillery fire, Moammar Gadhafi's loyalists threw rebels into a retreat from a strategic oil port Thursday, its counteroffensive reversing the opposition's advance toward the capital Tripoli and now threatening its positions in the east.

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