Jonathan Stock
Spiegel Online
March 4, 2011
Far from raising the white flag, Gadhafi’s troops are continuing to fight against the opposition in eastern Libya in order to maintain control of the country’s crucial oil facilities along the Bay of Sirt. Opposition fighters claim they have driven back their attackers, but the battle is far from finished.
Yusuf helped to transport the explosives from old bombs to the front as the opposition fought to take control of Benghazi in eastern Libya. Today, the young man, with his dark curls of hair, is wearing a beret with a red star on it. The men fighting along with him call him “Chifarris,” an apparent reference to Che Guevara. The 23-year-old’s mother came to Libya from Germany 30 years ago, and his forefathers fought against their Italian occupiers in the North African country. “Whatever happens will happen,” he says of the current battle against dictator Moammar Gadhafi.
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