Sunday, May 1, 2011

The targets are military, NATO justified

The Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) denied attacking family members of Moammar Gadhafi, after a Libyan government spokesman said the leader had survived an air raid on Tripoli in the organization that killed his younger son and three grandchildren. The NATO commander for operations in Libya, Lt. Gen.

Charles Bouchard, confirmed that one of his targets included a command center in a neighborhood of Tripoli on Saturday night, in which a Libyan spokesman said Gadhafi and his family were targeted. "All NATO targets are military in nature (...) We do not attack individuals. I am aware of unconfirmed media reports about some family members have been killed Gadhafi.

We regret any loss of life. " Bouchard said the target was part of a strategy of attacking command centers that threaten civilians. "NATO continued its precision strikes against facilities of the military regime in Tripoli, including a well-known attacks against command and control building in the neighborhood of Bab al-Azizy shortly after 18:00 on Saturday." In the city of Benghazi, insurgents fired into the air as a sign of joy for the NATO attack.

Passing cars honking their horns, while the sky was lit up with tracer bullets and rocket fire, antiaircraft guns and assault rifles. "They are so happy that Gadhafi has lost his son in an air raid that triggered to celebrate, "military spokesman Transitional National Council, Colonel Ahmed Omar Bani.

A spokesman for the regime, Ibrahim Musa, said in a news conference that the youngest son of Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi, Saif Al Arab Gadhafi, and three of her grandchildren were killed by a NATO airstrike.

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