Saturday, March 26, 2011

New attack on Gaddafi's bunker Insurgents: "A Measured 16 dead, 5 children"

ROME - In the evening, the Al Arabiya satellite television reported a new attack fighters of the international coalition to the barracks-bunker Muammar Gaddafi in Tripoli, already hit by a missile on Sunday. The refuge is located in the Libyan Rais "compound" of Baba el Aziziya, where Gaddafi yesterday evening had turned to his supporters.

In the late afternoon, before the new attack fighter, the state television, he told supporters in a march to the Colonel's Bab al-Aziziya, perhaps to serve as human shields. While the coalition fighters continue to whiz on Libya, Gaddafi shows no signs of slowing and his forces continue to use artillery against the city in the hands of insurgents, who cite a new offensive in the evening to Rais of Misurata, where would killed 16 people, including five children.

To break the siege of the city, coalition fighters attacked with two brigades of Gaddafi air raids. These are the latest aspects of a particularly intense day, although the Pentagon says that 24 hours has lost all traces Libyan aviation and that the flak is now reduced to a minimum. Even in the evening, at least eight explosions and a column of black smoke were reported by witnesses at an army base Libyan twenty miles east of Tripoli.

Meanwhile, the voice of Admiral U.S. Gerad Hueber, the Pentagon confirmed attacks against ground forces of Gaddafi to force them to withdraw from the cities of Adjabiya, Misurata and Zawiyah. During the briefing, the admiral said that there is no indication that the coalition attacks on Libyan cities have caused civilian casualties.

The U.S. official added that the patrols of the no-fly zone on Libya has now extended to the entire coastal region of Libya, and that coalition aircraft have carried out 57 air raids yesterday, the highest number since the beginning of the operation .

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