Libya Rebels Say Town on Way to Tripoli Taken

Rebel commanders said their fighters captured the town of Bir Ghanam, 80 kilometers south of the Libyan capital, on Saturday.

An Agence France Presse correspondent, although he did not visit Bir Ghanam, was with the several hundred fighters as they advanced north on a road strewn with burned-out vehicles of the Libyan army, some with bodies of dead soldiers inside.

Black smoke hovered over the road.

Most of the rebels in Bir Ghanam's capture were members of a "Tripoli Battalion" made up of volunteers from the capital and other coastal towns who received military training in the Nafusa Mountains, southwest of the capital.