The War for Libya’s West Coast

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Libya—Here, west of Tripoli, the revolutionaries are fighting largely without direction from Benghazi’s Transitional National Council. I’m traveling with three Sabratha fighters—Rowad, his brother Ahmed, and their cousin Mansur. The goal is to get to the frontline at Adjilat, where they plan to join a large force campaigning against one of the remaining groups of Qaddafi loyalists.

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