ZAWIYAH, Libya (Reuters) - Libyan rebels said on Monday they had seized a second strategic town near Tripoli within 24 hours, cutting off the capital's two main supply routes after the boldest advances of their six-month-old uprising against Muammar Gaddafi.
A defiant and apparently isolated Gaddafi urged his followers to fight the "rats" (rebels), in a barely audible telephone call broadcast on state television overnight.
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