Reply #25: Heinz predicts slow day [View All]

Paraphrasing:

Rebels have a lot of consolidating to do after huge advances the last few days.

No point in engaging at Brega because it will just result in needless deaths to take a desert outpost. Gaddafi's troops are surrounded, cut off and the city has no strategic value to the revolution. Just wait it out.

I am not clear if Heinz said Misurata was already getting logistical and military support by sea from Benghazi or soon would. In my opinion, they probably already are because Misurata is fighting on a much larger perimeter and with greater effect than they were previously, which leads me to believe they have been reinforced.

Remaining regime troops (mostly mercs) in Western Mountains will continue to get slaughtered as they attack a superior force defending their home area.

Heinz and AFreedom report defections continue, and will accelerate as the rebels approach Tripoli.

AFreedom believes Gaddafi is dead. Others are reporting a stroke. Either way, no one has seen him in over a week. Everyone seems to believe that Saif and the other older brother are in charge now, but need the specter of Gaddafi to keep loyalty.

http://blogs.aljazeera.net/live/africa/libya-live-blog-0