Rough Cut (no reporter narration)<br/> STORY: Street warfare broke out in downtown Sirte on Sunday (October 16) for the third day in a row between opposition fighters and pro-Gaddafi forces around the al-Dollar residential district.<br/> As National Transitional Council fighters kept up a continual barrage of RPG and anti-aircraft fire, one commander accused the pro-Gaddafi fighters of using women and children who live in the area as human shields.<br/> Convoys of tanks and other military vehicles could be seen driving in to Sirte as Abu Zied said they would enter al-Dollar later in the day.<br/> NTC militia have besieged Sirte for weeks, only slowly tightening their grip to the point where now Gaddafi die-hards are surrounded in an area of about two sq km (a sq mile). Green flags, the banner of Gaddafi's rule, still fly over the area.<br/> However there is little sign yet of a major push under way from the NTC infantry to completely take the politically strategic town.<br/> The often chaotic struggle has cost scores of lives and left thousands homeless.
