TRIPOLI, Libya - NATO aircraft dazzled an oil terminal in an eastern city key at dusk Sunday, Libyan TV reported, after Britain had urged the alliance to expand its assault on areas controlled by the leader Muammar Gaddafi.
Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs Libya Khaled Kaim strongly condemns this call, describing as a "provocation."
Libya TV report said that the bombs struck methanol tanks, oil port of Ras Lanouf causing leaks. NATO officials made no immediate comment.
The attack came as the Libyan dispute appeared largely intractable, with each side claiming gains in a day, only to be removed the next.
Libyan rebels said Sunday that they have taken full control of the city of Misrata of Western port, 125 miles (200 km) of Tripoli, the main town in the West of the Libya with a projecting significant rebel. The rebels claim could not be confirmed.
In Misrata, rebel fighter Abdel Salam has described the situation in Misrata as static.
"The situation is almost frozen, the rebels are in full control of Misrata," said. "The rebels do not all major fronts fighting with the forces of Gaddafi.".
The two parties have been intensely fighting on Misrata, symbolic because of its location near capital of Gaddafi. His forces bombed the city strongly and on some points take position within neighbourhoods Misrata firing on civilians and combatants, while avoiding the NATO air strikes. Rebels and residents said Kadhafi forces remain on the edges of the city.
More than 1,000 people died in Misrata in fighting and shelling.
The Hunter of rebels refused earlier reports, suggesting that the rebels advancing towards the Western City of Zlitan, which would be the next step on the road to Tripoli.
"The rebels agreed it is better not to go ahead or to open new fronts", he said.
He added: "this will be a great risk to move forward." Everything could be and we cost heavy causalities. This is not the right decision to make now. ?
The head of the British armed forces, General David Richards, seemed to relate to the stalemate and frustration of the West over the slow pace of the war in Libya, with Gaddafi still in power, able to taunt NATO for failing to remove him.
In comments published in The Sunday Telegraph in London, Richards has urged NATO to expand the range of targets, that alliance planes are allowed to knock in the efforts to counter the attacks of the regime of Gadhafi on the demonstrators. Richards said that "the most intense military action" was needed or the conflict could end the impasse.
Kaim, Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs, said appeal Richards is emblematic of the attacks of the international alliance, which he said exceeded the mandate of the United Nations that allowed them to start.
"This threat is to terrorize civilians", he said Monday at the start a discussion late evening with journalists in the Libyan capital.
Kaim also said NATO strikes have been aimed to kill Gaddafi. However, "these attempts to kill the Chief are a complete waste of time," he said.
Gaddafi has rarely seen or heard since a strike killed his son on April 30. He briefly presented to the State television and another day he released a minute-long voice message.
Kaim said Kadhafi is always "" the leader of the country - but not in charge of the day-to-day business.""
The call to expand the NATO strikes on the Libya came that the prosecutors of the International Criminal Court has put the final touches on their case against three Libyan leaders on charges of murder and persecution in the brutal repression of anti-Government rebels.
The Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo will introduce a document 74 pages with nine annexes describing the allegations and seek arrest warrants for three Libyan leaders regarded as more responsible for the atrocities.
Luis Moreno-Ocampo did not disclose the names of the three, but Gaddafi should largely be among them.
Kaim dismissed the planned arrest warrants, saying that the Government would "show the attention on the decision." He said that the Libya did not recognize the jurisdiction of the Court international or African.
Kaim cited the case of Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, who was charged with crimes including genocide in Darfur, following a probe of the Security Council mandate and travelled to friendly nations several times without judgment.
Also Sunday, Special Envoy of the United Nations for the Libya, Elah Abdel Al-Khatib, issued a one-day visit to Tripoli, Kaim and a statement of the United Nations stated, in part to try to pressure for a ceasefire. Al-Khatib met with tribal leaders and senior officials of the Government. Cease-fire efforts were unsuccessful.
While refusing to comment on the attack on Ras Lanouf, which is subject to midway between Tripoli and the stronghold of the rebels of Benghazi in eastern Libya, a spokesman for NATO in Naples, who refused to give her name said that there is a NATO about midday airstrike Sunday near Zawara50 kilometres (30) (miles) from the Tunisian border. He said that it was a strike on a military post of pro-Gaddafi where there is equipment used to target civilians.
For Tunisia tap news agency said that NATO aircraft bombed-out barracks and radar facilities in the town of Libyan Boukamache about 11 miles (17 km) from the Tunisian border.
Libyans have been casting of Boukamache through in Tunisia via the border post of Ras Jdir, said the report.
Detonations could be heard Ras Jdir border post, where the Tunisian army is on alert since Saturday after a power outage on the Libyan side.
TAP also reported that forces Tunisian Saturday thwarted a push by the forces of Gaddafi 200 some all-terrain vehicles 50 on Tunisian territory.
Libyans tried to enter the Tunisia to regain the strategic Dhehiba border crossing, controlled by the Libyan rebels for the past few weeks. The Tunisian army sent tanks, armoured vehicles and troops reinforcements in the area in response, TAP reported.
An activist in the town of Zintan in the extreme west, said pro-Gaddafi ruins the area late Saturday.
In a further gesture against Gaddafi, League of Arab States said meeting in Cairo, has asked the Libyan official Arabsat satellite operating company to stop transmitting television channels. The Arab League is the owner of the satellite. He did not step clear when the decision would come into force.
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