NATO apologizes in second place. He expressed his regret for the victims of 'friendly fire' of Brega on Wednesday the NATO Secretary General, Anders Fogh Rasmussen. The statement comes a few hours after the deputy commander of the mission 'Unified Protector' in Libya, Rear Admiral Russ Harding: "I do not apologize because until then we had not seen any tank-led insurgents." "Today - he explained - we have documentary evidence of tanks attacking civilians, as we know that they are used civilians as human shields and that the army of Gaddafi is positioning tanks near mosques and schools, to prevent their bombarded with us.