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Rebel fighters in western Libya faced sustained artillery and rocket bombardment by forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi for the fifth straight day on Saturday. Credit: Reuters/Anis Mili By Peter Graff AL-QAWALISH, Libya | Sun Jul 10, 2011 9:53am EDT AL-QAWALISH, Libya (Reuters) - Forces loyal to Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi let loose a heavy artillery bombardment on Sunday to try to push back rebel fighters who had taken a village about 100 km (60 miles) south of Tripoli. Al-Qawalish is a strategic battleground in the rebels' march on the capital because if the they manage to advance beyond it they will reach the main highway leading north into Tripoli, where Gaddafi has his main stronghold. A rebel fighter in Al-Qawalish, Amignas Shagruni, told Reuters that shells had been landing repeatedly over the past 24 hours from pro-Gaddafi forces positioned a few kilometers to the east. But he said: "No one was hurt, thank God." During a 20-minute period while Reuters visited the front line east of Al-Qawalish, at least five shells landed. However, they did not appear to be well targeted, striking ransom spots in the nearby hills. Shagruni was among a group of rebels manning the last rebel checkpoint before the front line. He said NATO warplanes had been in action in the area and hit government positions. "(They bombed) just once but it was very strong. They hit either a Grad missile or ammunition because it was very strong, even the ground shook," he said. Libya has been convulsed by a civil war since February when thousands of people, inspired by revolutions in neighboring Egypt and Tunisia, rose up against his 41-year-rule. That rebellion has now turned into the bloodiest of the "Arab Spring" uprisings sweeping the region. Gaddafi has been defiantly holding on to power in the face of rebel attacks, NATO air strikes, economic sanctions and the defections of prominent members of his government. REBEL PROGRESS Western powers who want to force him out are banking on rebel advances toward Tripoli -- combined with a possible revolt inside the city -- to break his grip on power. But rebel progress toward the capital has been halting at best, with the mostly amateur fighters who often take to the battlefield in jeans and T-shirts frequently out-gunned by government troops. Gaddafi himself sounded a new note of defiance on Friday. In an audio recording broadcast on state television, he threatened to export the war to Europe in revenge for the NATO-led military campaign against him. "Hundreds of Libyans will martyr in Europe. I told you it is eye for an eye and tooth for a tooth," he said. "You will regret it, NATO, when the war moves to Europe." Hundreds of kilometers to the northeast of Al-Qawalish, another force of rebels is also trying to push toward Tripoli, though they too are facing tough resistance. Fighters from the rebel-held city of Misrata, about 200 km (130 miles) east of Tripoli, have fought their way west to the outskirts of Zlitan, the first in a chain of coastal towns blocking their progress toward the capital. BEHIND GOVERNMENT LINES A spokesman for insurgents who are behind the pro-Gaddafi lines and inside Zlitan itself, said they had mounted their second attack on government troops in a week. "The revolutionaries inside the town of Zlitan shelled the (pro-Gaddafi) brigades positioned on the coastal road on Sunday at 1:00 a.m. (2300 GMT), killing at least seven people," a rebel spokesman, who identified himself as Mabrouk, told Reuters from Zlitan. The account could not be verified independently because journalists have not been able to reach the town. More than three months into the NATO operation, the alliance is under strain from the failure to achieve a decisive breakthrough on the ground and the cost of the campaign, which is stretching member states' recession-hit finances. Last week, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi -- from whose country many of the NATO warplanes take off for Libya -- said he had opposed the intervention, and his government scaled back its military contribution. In France, parliament will vote on Tuesday on whether to extend its military operations in Libya. France, with Britain, is the biggest contributor to the NATO campaign. The French budget minister, Valerie Pecresse, said the cost was manageable. "The cost of our intervention in Libya has reached at this stage 160 million euros," Pecresse told the Journal Du Dimanche newspaper. "Compare that figure to the 40 billion euro (French) defense budget. We can absorb it," she said. NATO launched its bombing campaign in March after the United Nations Security Council authorized the use of all necessary means to protect civilians who rose up against Gaddafi. Gaddafi says the rebels are armed criminals and al Qaeda militants. He has called the NATO operation an act of colonial aggression aimed at stealing Libyan oil. (Additional reporting by Nick Carey in Misrata, Hamid Ould Ahmed in Algiers, Lamine Chikhi in Tripoli and John Irish in Paris; Writing by Christian Lowe; Editing by Alison Williams) World United Nations Italy Libya Tweet this Link this Share this Digg this Email Reprints We welcome comments that advance the story through relevant opinion, anecdotes, links and data. If you see a comment that you believe is irrelevant or inappropriate, you can flag it to our editors by using the report abuse links. Views expressed in the comments do not represent those of Reuters. 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