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Anti-Gaddafi fighters destroy Sirte's eastern gate which was meant to separate the city of Sirte, Gaddafi's birth place, and nearby towns, east of Sirte, October 5, 2011. Credit: Reuters/Esam Al-Fetori By Rania El Gamal SIRTE, Libya | Thu Oct 6, 2011 11:29am EDT SIRTE, Libya (Reuters) - Heavy sniper fire from forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi held back Libyan government forces trying to take the former leader's hometown on Thursday, making predictions of a quick end to the battle look optimistic. Residents who fled the town of Sirte said civilians were dying. One man said a rocket strike killed his 11-year-old son and he had to bury him where he died because the fighting was too intense to reach the cemetery. Taking Sirte is of huge importance to Libya's new rulers, and until it is captured they are putting on hold plans to start rebuilding the country as a democracy. Once a sleepy fishing town, Gaddafi transformed his birthplace into Libya's second capital. Parliament often sat in Sirte and international summits were held in a marble-clad conference center in the south of the city. Commanders with the National Transitional Council (NTC) said this week they believed they would have Sirte, a city of 75,000, under their full control by the weekend. But Gaddafi loyalists, many of whom pulled back to Sirte when they lost control of other cities, are putting up fierce resistance. They have nowhere else to go. "A lot of them are veterans, the hardcore fanatics. There's also mercenaries (and) people fiercely loyal to Gaddafi," said Matthew Van Dyke, an American who is fighting with the anti-Gaddafi forces. "They are not going to give up," said Van Dyke, who said he came to Libya seven months ago to visit friends, was arrested by Gaddafi forces, and joined the fighting on his release. "It's going to take a while. (Because of) the snipers, we are going to take a lot of casualties." TAKING COVER NTC units at the front line based themselves in a luxury hotel on the northeastern corner of Sirte, from where they were trying to take out loyalist sniper positions and mount patrols into the surrounding streets. They did not appear to have progressed any further into the center of Sirte than they had been 24 hours earlier. At one point, fighters on the roof of the hotel had to lie flat and take cover behind a parapet when they came under machine gun fire from loyalists in nearby buildings. On the marble staircase leading down from the roof was a trail of blood and bandages. On the ground floor of the hotel -- which rebels said was built to accommodate Gaddafi's guests -- water in the fountain was stagnant. NTC units used binoculars to look for the telltale flash coming from the weapons of pro-Gaddafi snipers, and then directed machine gun and mortar fire at the source of the flash. They said one loyalist sniper was hiding out in the minaret of a mosque about 600 meters away. Residential buildings were blackened, and lumps of concrete lay in the streets below after they had been blown off by large-caliber rounds. Anti-Gaddafi commanders say they do not believe the deposed Libyan leader is in Sirte, though they said one of his sons, Mo'atassem, was in the city. Muammar Gaddafi himself is thought to be hiding somewhere to the south, in the Sahara desert. Near Sirte airport, a set of aircraft steps had been abandoned in the highway. They were lined with a red carpet, edged in gold -- possibly the steps used for the foreign heads of state Gaddafi would welcome to summits in Sirte. At the airport, to the south of Sirte, Suleiman Ali, an NTC fighter who said he had been in the city for a month, said talk of a final push was premature. "They are stupid," he said, referring to NTC commanders attacking Sirte from the east. "You cannot get in with 15 men. They do not see the balance of their force and our force." CIVILIAN ANGER The battle for the city has come at a high cost for civilians. They have been trapped by the fighting with dwindling supplies of food and water and no proper medical facilities to treat the wounded. Many of Sirte's residents are members of Gaddafi's own tribe, making the city a test of the new NTC's ability to unite the country and reconcile its fractious tribes. People fleeing the city blamed the NTC forces, and the NATO alliance whose warplanes have been flying sorties over the city, for the death and destruction. Hajj Abdullah, in his late 50s, was at a Red Cross post on the edge of Sirte where food was being handed out. He said he had just escaped the city. "My 11 year old died from the NATO rockets ... I buried him where he died," because it was too dangerous to go to the cemetery, he said. "There are random strikes in the city. People are dying in their houses." He said many civilians were unable to leave. "If someone doesn't have petrol and has small kids, what does he do? ... The ones who stayed behind are the poor and the weak." A NATO spokesman on Wednesday said the alliance's warplanes had not made any strikes on Sirte since last weekend, and that they were doing everything possible to protect civilians. But that message had not reached angry residents. "NATO is the one who hit the innocent. We will never forgive them," said a 23-year-old from Sirte called Mohammed. Anti-Gaddafi forces say they are trying to liberate the people of Sirte from a small number of pro-Gaddafi hardliners and mercenaries. But residents say ordinary people have taken up arms in Sirte to fight the attackers -- suggesting the battle could be prolonged and, even once it is over, that there will be lasting hostility toward Libya's new rulers. "There are no (pro-Gaddafi) brigades. You know, the ones who are is fighting in Sirte are the people who lost their brothers, their mothers and sisters," said Mohammed. "The families are fighting for their homes and their children who have died." (Reporting By Christian Lowe; Editing by Jon Hemming) World 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. For more information on our comment policy, see http://blogs.reuters.com/fulldisclosure/2010/09/27/toward-a-more-thoughtful-conversation-on-stories/ Comments (3) Invictuss wrote: these are not Libyan forces but rather gang of criminals that have not been elected by the people…alongside the terrorists from nato… Oct 06, 2011 8:32am EDT -- Report as abuse avargas2001 wrote: wow! this is scarry,,, terrorist are being allowed and helped to run a country, this is how Afghanistan got started, UK, USA, Canada and france will become the new terrorist target and it’s well deserved, Allah ukbar…. Oct 06, 2011 10:09am EDT -- Report as abuse avargas2001 wrote: ok who elected this terrorist to run a country, I do hope the Libyan snipers execute every terrorist running on the streets with the gay tri color flag and guns, there should be a rewards for executing this terrorists…maybe if they kill the terrorists and sell the weapons to nigeria or algeria things would turn out better for Libyans. 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