According to the Government of Libya, Colonel Qaddafi was not injured by the NATO bombing that targeted a building of his residence in Bab Al-Aziziyah in Tripoli earlier Monday, April 25. According to an official press officer, who requested anonymity, Colonel Gaddafi used this building for ministerial meetings.
Forty-five people were injured, fifteen of them seriously, and others are missing, the official said. But it was not possible to confirm this assessment from an independent source. Seif Al-Islam Gaddafi, a son of Colonel, described the bombing of the office of his father "a coward". "This cowardly attack on Muammar Qaddafi's office can frighten or terrorize the kids, but we do not abandon the battle and we are not afraid," he said in a brief statement on its television Allibiya, saying the battle waged by NATO in Libya was "unwinnable." Three powerful explosions rocked Tripoli on the night of Sunday to Monday.
Following this series of blasts, three state channels have stopped broadcasting for half an hour before resuming their broadcasts. On Friday, the Atlantic Alliance forces had struck near the residence, to what the Libyan government has presented as a parking lot but that could conceal a bunker.
The United States, Britain and France, leading in the case of Libya, has warned that strikes would cease only when Muammar Gaddafi leave power. Washington, which wants as far as possible remain in the background of military action in Libya, but has deployed Predator drones for the first time on Saturday to destroy multiple rocket launchers near Misrata.
United States, U.S. Senator John McCain, who visited Friday in the rebel stronghold of Benghazi, urged countries to intensify its air strikes in Libya, arguing that a prolonged military stalemate would benefit Al-Qaeda. 
Forty-five people were injured, fifteen of them seriously, and others are missing, the official said. But it was not possible to confirm this assessment from an independent source. Seif Al-Islam Gaddafi, a son of Colonel, described the bombing of the office of his father "a coward". "This cowardly attack on Muammar Qaddafi's office can frighten or terrorize the kids, but we do not abandon the battle and we are not afraid," he said in a brief statement on its television Allibiya, saying the battle waged by NATO in Libya was "unwinnable." Three powerful explosions rocked Tripoli on the night of Sunday to Monday.
Following this series of blasts, three state channels have stopped broadcasting for half an hour before resuming their broadcasts. On Friday, the Atlantic Alliance forces had struck near the residence, to what the Libyan government has presented as a parking lot but that could conceal a bunker.
The United States, Britain and France, leading in the case of Libya, has warned that strikes would cease only when Muammar Gaddafi leave power. Washington, which wants as far as possible remain in the background of military action in Libya, but has deployed Predator drones for the first time on Saturday to destroy multiple rocket launchers near Misrata.
United States, U.S. Senator John McCain, who visited Friday in the rebel stronghold of Benghazi, urged countries to intensify its air strikes in Libya, arguing that a prolonged military stalemate would benefit Al-Qaeda.
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