QADDAFI’S WINNING STREAK CONTINUES WITH VICTORY AT RAS LANUF AIRPORT

eWallstreeter | Gus Lubin | March 4, 2011 11:40 am

14:37 ET: Qaddafi’s forces just took back the Ras Lanuf airport, according to Reuters.

13:25 ET: There was just an airstrike on an arms depot near Benghazi, according to Al Jazeera.

A reporter in the rebel stronghold says there are sounds of gunfire around the city. This is the rebel stronghold, now full of aid workers and reporters, and there will be a crisis if it is attacked.

13:13 ET: A Libyan official says West Libya is totally in government hands but the east is “problematic”… (via Al Arabiya).

Brega is still in rebel hands and there’s fighting at Ras Lanuf.

12:18 ET: The rebels seem to be losing ground in Brega. A photographer from the front tells Al Jazeera: “The mood is very somber. The fighting continues, it doesn’t stop, the rebels might be turning around.”