The Fall of Benghazi

The northern Libyan city of Benghazi is the beginning and crux of the revolt against Col Muammar Gaddafi.

"When local people there came out to protest last week, they were fired on from a huge army base in the centre of the city with heavy artillery, including anti-aircraft guns.

In response, they simply took on the army, with homemade petrol bombs.

They loaded construction site vehicles with petrol and rammed them against the walls of the barracks, and ground down the troops inside.

After two or three days of bitter fighting - with the aid of some defection from the government side - they took the base, defeating some of the country's most elite forces."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-12573890