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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/gaddafi-planes-attack-oil-port.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Libyan protesters in Benghazi shout slogans against Col Gaddafi (AP)" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/min-gaddafi-planes-attack-oil-port.jpg" alt="Libyan protesters in Benghazi shout slogans against Col Gaddafi (AP)"/></a></p>
<p>Libyan warplanes have struck the rebel-held oil port in the eastern town of Brega.</p>
<p>The area was the site of a fierce battle on Wednesday between leader Muammar Gaddafi&#8217;s loyalists, who tried to retake control of the strategic oil installation, and armed rebels who repelled the attack after hours of fighting.</p>
<p>In the nearby town of Ajdabiya, mortuary officials said the death toll from the fighting rose to 14 on Thursday.</p>
<p>The target of the air strike was probably an airstrip that belongs to the huge oil complex.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, three marines from the Netherlands are being held by authorities in Libya after they were captured by forces loyal to Col Gaddafi while trying to rescue Dutch workers. </p>
<p>Two people the marines were trying to rescue were also captured but have since been released and have left Libya.</p>
<p>At least 10 anti-Gaddafi fighters were killed and 18 wounded in Wednesday&#8217;s battle for Brega, the site of Libya&#8217;s second-largest petroleum facility, which the opposition has held since last week. </p>
<p>For the past week, pro-Gaddafi forces have been focusing on the west, securing Tripoli and trying to take back nearby rebel-held cities, but the regime has seemed to struggle to bring an overwhelming force to bear against cities largely defended by local residents using looted weapons.</p>
<p>Pro-Gaddafi forces succeeded over the weekend in retaking two small towns, but the major western rebel-held cities of Zawiya and Misrata, near Tripoli, have repelled repeated, major attacks &#8211; including new forays against Zawiya on Wednesday.</p>
<p>In Benghazi, Libya&#8217;s second-largest city and the stronghold of the rebellion in the east, a self-declared &#8220;interim government council&#8221; formed by the opposition called on nations to carry out air strikes on non-Libyan African mercenaries that Col Gaddafi has used in his militias to put down the uprising.</p>
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