{"id":1650,"date":"2011-06-27T19:06:40","date_gmt":"2011-06-28T02:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the-war-diaries.com\/?p=1650"},"modified":"2011-06-27T19:08:59","modified_gmt":"2011-06-28T02:08:59","slug":"gains-in-western-libya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/the-war-diaries.com\/?p=1650","title":{"rendered":"Gains in Western Libya"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>New York-<\/strong> I have become increasingly interested in the gradual opening up of large swaths of western Libya in the peaks and valleys of the Nafusa Mountains. Until recently, this Berber populated area was one of the more under reported parts of the war there. The rebels must be controlling a particular border crossing with Tunisia that I have been looking into as journalists have begun to trickle into the region. The rebels have been making some bit of progress toward Tripoli but there is still a long way to go. 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