Another Chad town captured
2008-06-15 16:41
Libreville - Chadian rebels on Sunday captured the town of Am Dam, about 600km east of the capital Ndjamena and deeper into the country than their forces were a day earlier, a rebel spokesperson told AFP.
"We took the town in the middle of the day," Ali Gueddei told AFP. "The government troops did not offer much resistance."
Am Dam is 110km down the road from Goz Beida to the northwest, which the rebels briefly occupied on Saturday.
That puts it that much further from Chad's eastern border with Sudan - and that much closer to the capital.
"Our objective is not to take towns, but to clear obstacles on the road to Ndjamena," said Gueddei.
He insisted that their force was strong enough to take the capital.