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Pro-Qadhafi forces thwart eastern advance on Sirte

An anti-Qadhafi fighter covers his ears as a mortar is fired against Qadhafi loyalists in a village near Sirte, Libya, on Saturday (Reuters photo by Goran Tomasevic)
An anti-Qadhafi fighter covers his ears as a mortar is fired against Qadhafi loyalists in a village near Sirte, Libya, on Saturday (Reuters photo by Goran Tomasevic)

Libyan fighters closing in on Muammar Qadhafi’s birthplace from the east captured a nearby town on Saturday only to have their advance stopped by resistance from loyalist forces.

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