Gaddafi's control to organise into local committees in preparation for the fall of the government. Gaddafi loyalists in Sirte, in an apparent attempt at revenge for recent battlefield defeats, fired a Scud missile towards rebel-held territory near Ajdabiya, though it landed harmlessly in the desert. A Western official said, "That it didn't hit anything or kill anyone is not the point. It's a weapon of mass destruction that Colonel Gaddafi is willing to train on his own people." Rebels in the Nafusa Mountains claimed to have finally taken Teji, though the report was not verified. Opposition forces announced that Tripoli was cut off from supplies and effectively besieged, with routes through the cities of Zawiya and Gharyan under rebel control, and supply routes from Tunisia and the south of Libya into Tripoli blocked. Continuation For later events, see Timeline of the Libyan civil war and military intervention (16 August – 23 October), a chronology from 16 August up to the war's end. See also 2011 military intervention in Libya 2011 Libyan rebel coastal offensive 2011 Nafusa Mountains Campaign Arab Spring List of modern conflicts in North Africa References External links Timelines of the First Libyan Civil War