Colonel Qadhafi forces began the attack late Saturday morning with barrages of rocket and artillery fire aimed, Ajdabiya's Center. Then, when smoke rose and confusion grew, began a gunfight they sent that troops a contingent of ground in the city.
The attack was more determined and as the ambushes and exchange of rocket and artillery fire last days organized. Barrage after the flood of incoming fire knocked and exploded within the city and loyalist troops advanced behind it. Thick smoke rose and drove from Central Ajdabiya and at noon, the doctors like explosions which shook the streets city hospital were evacuated.
Many of the rebels fled once again streaming north up to Benghazi, the capital of rebel their horns blaring. A rebel fighter, shouting at vehicles as they passed: "Qadhafi's forces are coming!" Go! Go! "Go!"
But a group of lightly armed local residents remained for their homes, fighting stop the loyalists in Istanbul Street in the Centre of the city.
"We killed 10 of them," said Halum said, in the morgue in the late afternoon on the body of his brother, Abdul Ghadir Halum, booth, who had been shot between the eyes. "Our group is divided into two groups on Istanbul Street and fought them." "The firing was very difficult."
During the gun battle was raging, collected the most important rebel group, about 10 km north of Ajdabiya. Evening it started moving past of the city in the northeast of checkpoint, where the fighters parceled and short again a degree of control of the Ajdabiya of Eastern and central areas.
Gunfire was replaced in these areas, but skirmishes on the town of southern and Western sides could be heard. Then restarted the barrages, leads many rebels to flee to the new.
It was confusing, fast-moving and violent on the day, with determination and panic on the display. Brutality showed shortly in the form of mob rule.
In the Midafternoon as the rebels cars on the city of Alsace in checkpoint searches and continued the fighting, she pulled a man from a vehicle, rushed him to the shoulder far from the road and shot him. Capture of the man and his hasty funeral could be seen a hundred metres away, through binoculars from a few, although the execution was not visible, because the amount to the prisoners was too thick.
Journalists trying to interview the executioners were chased away by gunfire, which the checkpoint and the area nearby, seemingly random swept. The gathered crowd distributed the balls.
Later, after the shots slowed down, said several rebels had shot the man, because he was known, that a Loyalist agent. His name could not immediately be determined.
NATO air raids came in the game in the battle: at least one created a cloud over the city Western districts at 1:25 pm as Colonel Qadhafi troops the city were bombed. But the allied air campaign could again hold the military it, press the rebels, as have been that the case fighting during a week that saw the ragged opposition forces losing their footholds along the coastal road, including the city of Brega.
Mr Halum, clutching a battered assault rifle as he moved the morgue while his brother's body wash was, seemed angry and perplexed. Achieving Ajdabiya, Qadhafi loyalists had crossed about 50 miles of open desert.
"Where NATO?", he said. "The military Gaddafi came from Brega Ajdabiya." "Why not they they?"
Although the air strikes have deprived that Pro-Qaddafi forces use many of their armored vehicles were rebels not they reach and the loyalists have enabled deception and infiltration.
Eric Schmitt contributed reporting from Washington and Kareem Fahim Benghazi, Libya.
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