NATO Blamed as Libyan Rebels Flee Assault By Qaddafi Forces
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Libyan rebels retreated under heavy fire from the central oil port of Brega, prompting their top commander to lash out at NATO for not doing enough to stop artillery attacks by Muammar Qaddafi’s forces.
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is slow “in responding to our instructions” on targets and is failing to “give us what we need,” Abdel Fattah Younes, head of the rebel army and Qaddafi’s former interior minister, said at a press conference in Benghazi broadcast on Al Jazeera television. He was particularly critical of the alliance for failing to stop Qaddafi’s weeks-long siege of Misrata, the rebel-held western city near Tripoli that has been the scene of repeated attacks.