Tripoli pipeline attack 'endgame' for Qaddafi
June 29, 2011
Sources inside Libya have confirmed a Reuters news agency report last week that rebels had severed the pipeline that connects the Awbari oilfield in southern Libya to the Az-Zawiya refinery outside Tripoli.
A spokesman from the Benghazi-based rebel Interim National Council is quoted as saying that the aim is to "drain Tripoli".
There are also suggestions that anti-Gaddafi forces have managed to cut the gas pipeline used for power generation in Tripoli.
The Az-Zawiya refinery is still working, which suggests there is a store of crude oil to supply the Libyan capital. However, it is thought only to be producing at one-third capacity at present.
John Hamilton, contributing editor for African Energy, believes this could represent the start of the endgame for Colonel Gaddafi and his supporters.
"If you take the view that the rebels can't defeat Gaddafi militarily by invading Tripoli, and that Nato can't defeat him from the air, then the only option is to...
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