Hardened Misrata fighters took out fury on Gadhafi - World news - Mideast

Anonymous / AP /Libyan rebels secure prisoners in the back of a pick-up truck during fighting in Tripoli, Libya. The graffiti on the truck, in Arabic, reads, "Misrata steadfastness."

By RAMI AL-SHAHEIBI, RYAN LUCAS

MISRATA, Libya — Ahmed al-Said, a 46-year-old computer engineer, joined the rebels in his hometown of Misrata and fought off a bloody siege by Moammar Gadhafi's forces in what became one of the turning points of Libya's civil war. His worst memory, he says, is collecting body parts of young children and women from his city's streets.

Seething with hatred for the longtime dictator over the 2-month siege, battle-hardened Misratan fighters went on to play a key role in the capture of the capital in August. They made a daring amphibious landing on the shores of Tripoli. And days later, in their signature black pickup trucks, they blasted their way into Gadhafi's fortified Bab al-Aziziya compound, tore down an iconic monument of a fist crushing an American plane and hauled it back to Misrata as a trophy.

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