The strikes of NATO near Tripoli Gaddafi's compound

 NATO, staged an airstrike near consisting of Muammar al-Gaddafi in Tripoli, later Saturday and an opposition website said Libyan Government shelled residential areas outside the rebel-held town of Misrata.

Libyan officials said the alliance had attacked near Bab al-Azizia complex of Gaddafi and Reuters television images showed a column of smoke that rises on the capital.

However, no there was no immediate word on what was the target of the attack, and reporters escorted by Libyan officials were unable to approach the site.

NATO said its campaign paralyzed the ability of Tripoli to the attack of the rebels trying to overthrow Gaddafi and effectively forced Libyan leader went into hiding. Throughout the conflict was deadlocked as rebels advance on Tripoli attempts are at a standstill.

Earlier Saturday, the opposition Brnieq newspaper reported on its website, shelling of the outskirts of East and West of the Misrata damaged houses, but no one was injured. No there was no independent confirmation of the attack.

Three months after the start of the uprising against the dominance of four decades of Gaddafi, rebel control oil production is of the country and pockets to the West, including the port city of Misrata, where hundreds have died in a seat and the weeks of fierce fighting.

NATO says its bombing campaign against the Libyan Government forces helped rebels to consolidate their positions in Misrata, the city of the West only in the hands of the rebels.

The alliance took command of a mission of the United Nations has authorized there almost two months to stop the forces of Gaddafi attacking civilians, Western Governments, including the United States, Britain and the France are under pressure to show results.

NATO said that he carried out 157 air Friday. Its objectives included a command and control node and a deposit of storage of armoured vehicle near Tripoli and three launchers for surface-to-air missiles on Syrte, hometown of Gaddafi.

Tripoli calls rebel criminals and al-Qaeda activists and said NATO bombing is an assault by the Western nations bent on grabbing the Libya oil.

SNIPERS, MERCENARIES

Libyans armed with guns and a knife stormed a bus carrying foreign Tripoli journalists Saturday and a soldier fired bursts of gunfire into the air to disperse the crowd, said a journalist of Reuters on the bus.

No one was hurt in the attack, but it reflects the anger in the territory controlled by the Government on gasoline shortages, NATO air strikes and the media of State and Government of reports that the foreign media distort the news.

In the contested region of the mountains of the West, Gaddafi forces surround in the eastern part of Ryna, positioned snipers on rooftops, kidnapping young men and looting stores, place Jemaa Ibrahim, a rebel in Zintan neartold Reuters by telephone Saturday.

The soldiers, which included African mercenaries, asked residents to leave their homes and many fled under duress, some from Zintan, he said. No there was no independent confirmation of its report.