(Updates with report of rebels taking the border post in fourth paragraph.) EXTRA and is again the troubled Middle East.)
April 29 (Bloomberg) — the Libya army and rebel forces fought for control of a border crossing Western key in Tunisia, near an area where an offensive against the Berber minority Government has even with little foreign attention.The competing claims of border Wazzan success highlighted the fighting yesterday in the mountains of the West of the Libya and areas, where US officials say Government forces have been attacking Berber, also known as Amazigh, an indigenous ethnic group who joined the rebellion having suffered discrimination under the rule of Muammar Libyan rebel Kadhafi.Les struggle to maintain an insurgency aims to overthrow the rule of 42 years of Qathafi, a conflict that helped push oil prices to more than 30% since the beginning of mid-February. The Government forces maintained their shelling of the city of Misrata, port besieged yesterday that the air strikes of NATO against them. Rebel fighters in the city, said they are preparing for an attack on the positions of the artillery of Qathafi outside, said the Associated Press.Wazzan, on the border of the Tunisian city of Dehiba, is on the road of rebel supply for the towns of Nalut and Zintan mountain, southwest of Tripoli. Qathafi forces took control of the border after hours of fighting that involved artillery and GRAD rockets, according to Tunisian news agency tap. Al Jazeera, said today that the insurgents resumed sequences end crossing yesterday and showed their alleged independence flag it.Escape rebel RouteThe had taken control of Wazzan last week, providing an escape route for refugees who had also to take the long and difficult road to seek refuge or medical aid in Tunisia, the report published on the website of al-Jazeera. Thousands of Libyan had crossed in Tunisia for a counter-attack, News Agency France reported.The Tunisia Foreign Ministry protested bombing by Qathafi across the border and the Tunisian army forces, it is on high alert, said Al Jazeera.Gene Cretz, the Ambassador of the United States in Libya, said to journalists in the Department of State April 27 Qathafi forces "have been particularly brutal" in the mountains of the West "when it y." has always been a suspicion on the part of the Gaddafi to Berber groups. "Moreover, regime forces bombard the coastal town of Misrata Thursday killed 10 people, reported the Associated Press. Earlier, NATO said its Government to combat aircraft attacked vehicles of combat near the besieged town Libyan port on 27 April and the rebels, said that NATO mistakenly struck one of their positions, killing as much as 12. Military StalemateNATO intensifying air campaign for six weeks, on the Libya selecting targets closest to Kadhafi in a bid to break a military standoff between loyalist forces and opposition.The military alliance has increased its firepower in the week last with addition of American armed Predator drones and Italian ground attack aircraft. Defence to United Kingdom Secretary Liam Fox said April 27 that the strike this week which flattened part of the main compound of Qathafi to Tripoli was to "increase the psychological pressure" on the Libyan dictator.Crude for June delivery fell 0.4% to $112.44 US per barrel at 7: 45 p.m. in London, after having hit a 2 1/2 years, yesterday high. The Libya has proved more African oil reserves and its production was reduced by 75% of producers such as Marathon Oil Corp. forced fighting to evacuate workers.-Editors: Terry Atlas, Ben Holland, Karl Maier.
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