By Ines Bel Aiba | AFP News – 8 minutes ago
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"Misrata's thwar (fighters) arrived at the Al-Gharbiyat Bridge inside Sirte," the Misrata Military Council said in a statement, even as the British premier and French president were being mobbed in the eastern city of Benghazi....
"I confirm our forces are in Sirte, it is a big force," said Fathi Bashaga.
"There is still resistance but our fighters will be able to overcome it," the spokesman told an AFP correspondent in Wadi Bey, a desert town where part of the Sirte-bound convoy was held up in a battle with Kadhafi loyalists.
"They are attacking us with 40- and 43-mm mortars and all kinds of weapons."
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"We are turning the tables on Kadhafi. We were attacked in Misrata on three fronts, and now we're going to attack Sirte on three fronts," Fawzy Sawawy, head of the Mountains Brigade, told AFP.
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