Zawiya becomes epicenter of Libya's civil war

ZAWIYA, Libya (AP) -- Shops are shuttered. Makeshift roadblocks of scrap metal, sand piles and car wrecks block the streets every few hundred yards. Bursts of gunfire and the thud of mortars rattle the streets, sometimes distant, sometimes nearby. This Mediterranean coastal city of 200,000 is the ...

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