early results of the French airstrikes on Qaddafi’s forces

The article is HERE, but I will give a few snippets:

Muammar Gaddafi’s wrecked tanks and other army vehicles smouldered on a strategic road in east Libya on Sunday after Western powers launched air strikes that galvanised embattled rebels.

About 14 tanks, 20 armoured personnel carriers, two trucks with multiple rocket launchers and dozens of pick-ups — all destroyed — were visible, indicating the strength of the force sent to retake Benghazi from rebels.

“Gaddafi is like a chicken and the coalition is plucking his feathers so he can’t fly. The revolutionaries will slit his neck,” said Fathi Bin Saud, a 52-year-old rebel carrying a rocket propelled grenade launcher and surveying the wreckage.

“There is no more retreat, we are going forward from now on,” he said. “Not all of this is the coalition. We did some of it as well. They encourage us. We were fighting even before they came. This has raised our morale.”

Some of the bodies on the road were charred, others were already covered with blankets. Some were alongside vehicles and one lay inside a destroyed ambulance, with no sign of those who would have attended him.

“Tell the West to destroy Gaddafi slowly, piece by piece by piece, the way he did to us for 40 years,” said Jamal al-Majbouri, who owns a farm nearby.