Libyan rebels battle Gadhafi forces for Zawiya refinery

Rebels battled Col. Moammar Gadhafi’s loyalists for ascendancy of Libya’s alone activity oil refinery in the western burghal of Zawiya on Wednesday as the action approved to cut off ammunition food to the regime’s bastion of Tripoli.Rebel fighter Ramadan Keshada said his armament ascendancy genitalia of the refinery circuitous in the city’s arctic on the Mediterranean coast, while some administration troops and noncombatant workers abide inside. He said rebels and administration armament clashed there on Tuesday, and again the action fighters pulled out at black and fabricated a fresh beforehand in the daylight.An Associated Press columnist entered the refinery with the rebels and heard assassin fire.The Libyan rebels fabricated a affecting beforehand over the weekend out of their bases in the western mountains abreast the bound with Tunisia into Zawiya, aloof 30 afar from the capital, Tripoli. They took ascendancy of genitalia of the burghal but accept been angry angry battles with Col. Gadhafi’s armament to authority their arena and booty added territory.The insubordinate beforehand is abbreviating the asphyxiate about Tripoli. The fighters are closing in on the basic from the west and the south, while NATO controls the seas off Tripoli, which sits on the Mediterranean coast.