An AFP correspondent, although he did not visit Bir Ghanam, was with the several hundred fighters as they advanced north on a road strewn with burned-out vehicles of the Libyan army, some with bodies of dead soldiers inside.
Black smoke hovered over the road.
Most of the rebels in Bir Ghanam`s capture were members of a "Tripoli Battalion" made up of volunteers from the capital and other coastal towns who received military training in the Nafusa mountains, southwest of the capital. (*)
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