Gaddafi's Scorched Earth: Libya's Skies Turn Black As Desperate Dictator Blows Up Oil Pipes And Turns His Tanks On Civilians -- The Daily Mail
* U.S. fears that both sides are locked in a bloody stand-off
* The West wants to 'divide country and take oil', dictator claims
* Thirteen-and-a-half hour barrage of bombs on Zawiyah
* Snipers given orders to 'shoot anything that moves'
* 'We want the international community to support a no-fly zone', says Clinton
Colonel Gaddafi's forces today blasted an oil terminal to smithereens as Libya's bloody civil war entered its blackest day.
Rebels retaliated by firing back with rockets as a fireball exploded from one of the oil tanks and the sky above the Es Sider terminal, in the east of the country, filled with hideous smoke.
A witness said one of the smoke plumes was the biggest he had seen in the conflict so far.
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My Comment: This civil war is now entering a new and dangerous phase. Other countries are now watching .... and those who are dependent on oil supplies from this region must be deeply concerned with they are seeing.