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Fighters sent by Libya’s new rulers entered one of the last towns loyal to ousted leader Muammar Gaddafi on Friday They fought street-to-street battles in what could mark the start of a final showdown against bastions of Gaddafi control. “They (anti-Gaddafi fighters) are in the north of the city fighting snipers. We have also entered from the east,” National Transitional Council official Abdallah Kanshil said near the town of Bani Walid, 150 km (95 miles) southeast of Tripoli. Bani Walid is one of Gaddafi’s last bastions along with his hometown Sirte on the coast and the remote southern desert town of Sabha. Libya’s interim rulers had set a Saturday deadline for Gaddafi holdout towns to…
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