TRIPOLI, Libya - Libyan shouting for revenge his anti-aircraft fire thundering second youngest son of buried Muammar Gaddafi Monday, as in South Africa warned that the NATO bombing that killed would bring only more violence.
Leader of the Libya did not attend the tumultuous funeral of 29 years Seif al-Arab, but more former brothers Seif el-Islam and Mohammed paid their respect, inhabited by a crowd of several thousand. Jostled to get closer to the coffin, draped with a flag Libyan green, lament flashed signs of victory and chanted "Revenge, revenge for you, Libya."
Also, three grandchildren of Gaddafi, a child and two toddlers died in attack on Saturday, which said NATO targeted a centres of command and control of the regime. Gaddafi and his wife were in the compound at the time, but officials free, Libyan escaped have said, accusing the alliance of trying to assassinate the Libyan leader.
Responsible for NATO have denied that they are hunting Gaddafi to break the stalemate in the field of battle between troops and rebels trying for the past of Gaddafi 10 weeks to unseat him. Rebels control most part eastern Libya, while Gaddafi was hooked to a large part of the West, including the capital, Tripoli.
Battles have raged in Misrata, a besieged city of holding of rebels in the West of the Libya, which was bombed by Libyan forces every day in recent weeks. Hospital records showed that at least eight people were killed and 54 wounded in shelling Monday which lasted throughout the morning and during a brief period in the afternoon.
Rebels have requested several times on NATO to use firepower more against Libyan troops. "We call the world to treat al-Gaddafi, as they dealt with bin Laden," said Dr. Misrata, referring to the assassination of the brain of terror Osama bin Laden to Pakistan by US forces Monday at the start. Only, the doctor gave his first name Aiman, for fear of reprisals.
Under the mandate of the United Nations, NATO's role is to protect Libyan civilians, but the international community has increasingly disagree on which implies. Western political leaders have called for overthrow of Kadhafi, which prompted the warnings of the Russia, China and others that regime change should not be the objective of the campaign of attacks NATO, now in its second month.
In response to the attack of compound Gaddafi, South Africa said Monday that "attacks on leaders and officials cannot that lead to escalation of tensions and conflicts on all sides and make future difficult reconciliation." Sunday, the Russia has accused NATO of a "disproportionate use of force" and called for an immediate ceasefire.
South Africa has tried to mediate between Gaddafi and the rebels, proposes a ceasefire and dialogue. Rebel leaders have said they will lay only weapons once Gaddafi and his family leave, but Kadhafi has refused.
Since the beginning of the fighting in mid-February, the Gadhafis have made only rare public appearances.
In funeral Monday, Gaddafi two son Seif el-Islam and Mohammed are surrounded by a crowd of people who bore the coffin to a neglected cemetery, dusty where weeds and Thistles grew up in slabs of stone marking the graves. From several positions near the cemetery sustained anti-aircraft fire erupted for several minutes.
Seif el-Islam, considered until recently by the West as a supporter of reform, stood in the freshly dug falls as the body of his brother withdrew the coffin, wrapped in a white burial shroud and descends into the ground. Seif el-Islam was dressed in traditional Libyan costume, with a black hat and a black jacket on a white shirt for a long time.
About 100 meters (yards), small tombs were dug for the grandchildren of Gaddafi, killed in the attack.
The attack has not deterred Gaddafi to follow its attacks against the third largest city of the Libya, Misrata with 300,000 people. Monday, Misrata, including its port, for several hours, the forces of system deployed on the outskirts of the town bombed and doctors said 12 people were injured.
Hundreds were killed in Misrata in two months of siege by Libyan troops.
These days, Gaddafi forces tried to close access to the port, lifeline of the city. Last week, the NATO ships detected the forces of Gaddafi, then they tried to ask Misrata harbor approaches Ocean mines.
Two of the mines of the sea was tethered on the seafloor and were destroyed, but a third mine broke free and drifted off before the minesweepers arrived. The alliance said its ships of mine clearance have been compensation of Misrata harbor Monday approaches to ensure, there was no naval mines left in surrounding waters.
In Misrata, residents are faced with difficulties, growth said Aiman, the physician of the hospital.
He said that most of the inhabitants are hosting to other families who have fled the bombing. The doctor said that he and his brother host a total of five families with more than 45 people, including 25 children. Almost half of the city has no electricity, he said. People have resorted to the groundwater wells.
Disorders have prompted the UN to withdraw its international staff from Tripoli. Vandals burned British and Italian embassies and an Office of the UN on Sunday.
Turkey - a member of NATO which was an intermediary for the United States, Great Britain and Italy - temporarily closed its Embassy in the capital Libyan and sent his staff in nearby Tunisia due to the deterioration of security, said the Minister for Foreign AffairsAhmet Davutoglu. The Turkish Consulate in Benghazi controlled by the rebels, Libya, remains open.
Egypt, meanwhile, sent its first official delegation in Libya to meet with representatives of the Government in Tripoli as well as to rebel representatives of Benghazi in an attempt to "protect innocent civilians and stop the bloodshed," the Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman Menha Bakhoumsaid Monday without developing.
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