Raid on Ras Lanuf

Raid on Ras Lanuf
	Part of Libyan Civil War
Date	12 September 2011
Location	Ras Lanuf, Libya
Result	Indecisive Pro-Gaddafi saboteurs damage oil facilities; Anti-Gaddafi forces drive off attackers;
Belligerents
Anti-Gaddafi forces National Liberation Army;	Gaddafi loyalists Paramilitary forces;
Commanders and leaders
Hamid Hassy; Fadl-Allah Haroun	Unknown
Strength
About 60 refinery workers; Unknown number of fighters	15 saboteurs; Up to 150 fighters; 14-40 vehicles
Casualties and losses
15-17 fighters killed, 2 workers wounded	Unknown*
	*One NTC source claimed 15 loyalists were killed and 10 captured, but later reports made no mention of pro-Gaddafi losses

The raid on Ras Lanuf was a hit-and-run attack carried out in the early morning of 12 September 2011 by two groups of fighters loyal to Muammar Gaddafi in an apparently coordinated effort to disrupt oil refinery and export operations in the National Transitional Council-administered port town of Ra's Lanuf, Libya, during the Libyan Civil War.

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