The day before, loyalist forces from his hometown of Sirte fired a Soviet-era Scud ballistic missile at Brega that overshot its target by 50 miles, landing harmlessly in the desert.
Random fighting continued in pockets, with loyalist forces dug in around the city's southern outskirts.
But the implication was that this would happen only after loyalist forces had regained control of the city.
When loyalist forces bombed the outskirts of Benghazi a week or so ago, scores of pro-Qaddafi gunmen suddenly surfaced.
