GADHAFI FORCES BOMB REBEL-HELD TOWN IN EAST LIBYA

Pro-Gadhafi warplanes bomb town in rebel-held east of Libya, retake oil facility Witnesses say a town in the rebel-held east of Libya has come beneath air attacks and forces loyal to leader Moammar Gadhafi have retaken a nearby lubricate facility

 

The witnesses told The connected Press they saw two warplanes bomb the eastern part of the town of Ajdabiya at 10 a.m. local time Wednesday. They also supposed that pro-Gadhafi forces were advance on the town, some 470 miles (750 kilometers) east of the capital Tripoli.Ahmed Jerksi, manager of the Sirte oil company which runs the facility in the eastern town of Brega, said pro-Gadhafi forces retook control of the facility, southwest of Ajdabiya.

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BURNING DOWN THE 'BOMB FACTORY'

There were so many explosive chemicals littering a California house that bomb technicians have set the alleged "bomb factory" of George Jakubec ablaze rather than try to remove the material.

Jakubec, an unemployed software engineer, faces federal charges of bank robbery and bomb making after the discovery late last month of what may be the largest cache of homemade explosives ever assembled in the U.S. On Thursday, authorities closed Interstate 15 and evacuated a neighborhood before setting Jakubec's rented Escondido house on fire just after 11 a.m. local time. To protect nearby houses from the flames, firefighters had surrounded the home with a 16-foot-tall dry-wall fence and then smeared the barrier with fire gel before igniting the fire by remote control. The fire was expected to last four hours.

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