TRIPOLI - NATO carried out a number of attacks of missiles on targets in the region of Tripoli Tuesday that appeared to include leader compound Libyan Muammar Gaddafi, said witnesses.
Gaddafi is not appeared publicly since April 30, when an air strike by NATO on a house in the capital killed his youngest son and three grandchildren.
Libyan officials said four children were wounded, two of them seriously, by shrapnel of glass caused by explosions of NATO strikes in the region of Tripoli of the day to the next day.
Officials showed foreign journalists a hospital in the Libyan capital, where some Windows were reeling, apparently because of the waves from the explosion of a NATO strike that toppled a nearby communications tower.
Journalists have also been taken to a government building housing the High Commission for children which had been completely destroyed. The old colonial building had been damaged before what officials said was a NATO bombardment on April 30.
"The direction of at least an explosion suggests composed of Gaddafi has been taken to target," said a witness.
No other information is immediately available. But Tripoli explosions occurred on a backdrop of an impasse in the insurgency to unseat Gaddafi and the dilemma resulting for the Western powers on the desirability to provide clandestine aid to the rebels.
Monday, said rebels deposits of weapons of NATO bombed Government four times in the day, about 30 km (20 miles) southeast of Zintan, a town in the region of the Western mountains near Tunisia, where the conflict intensifies.
"The site has a few underground hangars 72 in reinforced concrete." We do not know how many have been destroyed. But every time that the aircraft struck, we have heard multiple explosions, a spokesman for the rebels, who gave his name as Abdulrahman said by telephone.
An another rebel spokesman said aircraft also struck around Tamina Chantine, East of Misrata, where the besieged rebels hang on in the last city they control in the West of the Libya.
The forces of Gaddafi led a fierce attack on Misrata, and hundreds have been killed in weeks of fighting.
Brnieq said rebel Libyan opposition newspaper were leading an uprising in the suburbs of Tripoli after being supplied with arms by agents of the security cancellation of the registration service.
The report on the Web site of the log cannot be verified independently. A Reuters reporter said he could not hear shots and a government official denied the report.
After two months of uprisings this year conflicts in other countries Arab, rebels take Benghazi and other towns in the East while the Government controls the capital and most of the West of the State in North Africa.
The Government says that most Libyan support Kadhafi, the rebels are armed criminals and militants for al-Qaeda and NATO intervention is an act of colonial aggression by the Western powers eager to steal oil reserves of the country.
Reinforced Libyan State television this point of view, saying NATO warships bombarded ""military and civilian targets"in Misrata and in the nearby town of Zlitan Monday."
WESTERN DILEMMA
The military stalemate confronts allies, including Britain, the United States and the France with a choice on whether to exploit loopholes in the sanctions regime, that they designed in February and March to help the rebels, analysts and diplomats of the Nations United said.
Another option would be to circumvent sanctions secretly, but both courts risk angering the Russia and China. They exercise a veto of the United Nations Security Council and are more critical of the NATO operations under a resolution to protect civilians.
The rebels are facing a Government with the superior firepower and resources, but they reported a financial breakthrough Monday, selling oil for $ 100 million paid by a bank Qatar in U.S. dollars.
A rebel military commander said its fighters killed 57 troops and destroyed 17 military vehicles during a major battle in the West of the city held the insurgents of Ajdabiya Monday.
The Commander, which the statement could not be verified immediately, also told Al Jazeera television two rebels were killed in the fighting at halfway between Ajdabiya and Brega oil port, where Gaddafi forces are entrenched.
In view of the failure of the rebels their main target, the war of failover Gaddafi focuses on a Libyan border near the Tunisian town of Dehiba, Zintan and Misrata.
Two rebel spokesman Misrata spoke of intense fighting in the city and the airport of its strategic importance.
Rebels were trying to extinguish fires at a Government fuel storage depot bombed Friday.
A ship chartered by the International Committee of the Red Cross arrived in Misrata, providing medical supplies, baby food and spare parts to repair water and electrical systems.
The war has killed thousands and caused significant suffering, not less than tens of thousands of economic migrants from sub-Saharan Africa forced to flee by land or by boat.
Dozens have died trying to reach the Italy and migration creates not only the possibility of a humanitarian crisis, but also poses political headache for the NATO and the European Union.
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