Advancing on Bani Walid

A brigade of anti-Gaddafi troops advanced on the besieged Libyan town of Bani Walid on Wednesday night (September 7), a town that remains stubbornly in the hands of die-hard gunmen raring to fight for their deposed leader.
Fighters at the gates of Bani Walid, one of the last remaining strongholds of the old regime, have so far failed to convince the town's pro-Gaddafi masters to lay down their arms and surrender.
On Wednesday, a brigade of reinforcements arrived to bolster the fighters already stationed there.
Inside Bani Walid, tucked away in barren hills about 150 km (90 miles) south of the capital Tripoli, Gaddafi's green flags still fly above households and a huge portrait of Gaddafi in military uniform towers above its central square.