Once again, Tripoli upbeat rock from air strikes of NATO France

TRIPOLI  - NATO has conducted its heaviest airstrikes against the capital of the Libya in more than two months of bombing, optimistic comments from the France and the Uhited States on the progress made towards ending rule Muammar Gaddafi.

Six loud explosions rocked Tripoli later Tuesday in 10 minutes, powerful following 24 hours earlier, including a compound of Kadhafi, that Libyan officials said killed 19 people and State television, blames on "crossed colonialists" frappes

French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe said on Tuesday that NATO attacks campaign progresses and is expected to reach its objectives in the following months. An official of the alliance said strike early Tuesday was "the most concentrated to date".

France, Great Britain, and the United States direct the air strikes, which began on March 19, after the United Nations Security Council authorized "all necessary measures" to protect civilians from the forces of Qaddafi as he sought to crush an uprising against his regime of 41 years.

The three countries have declared that they will be follow the campaign until Gaddafi leaves power. Juppe optimistic assessment came after the US said that departure of the Libyan leader was inevitable.

"There is more centres of resistance (to Qaddafi), particularly in the West," Juppe said at a session of questions and answers to the French Parliament. "The defections accelerate."

"I can assure you that our commitment is to ensure that the mission in Libya does not last more than a few months."

France said this week that it would deploy attack helicopters to ensure more accurate of the attacks against the forces of Gaddafi incorporated among the civilian population of the cities Libyan. Britain said on Tuesday that it planned to do the same.

Military analysts said these plans and the intensification of Tripoli bombing reflect Western culture of the concerns that the civil war of the Libya was indecisive dragging on. But they said that the new movements might not be enough to tip the balance quickly.

While critics argue that NATO has exceeded its mandate, the rebels are complained of Western forces are not enough to break the army of Gaddafi.

Kadhafi denies its civilian forces from the target, and said rebels, who control the East of the country, are criminals, oil-producing religious extremists and members of al-Qaeda.

The United States has reinforced the credentials of the base of Benghazi rebel National Council of transition as a potential Government pending Tuesday when a sent U.S. invited to put in place a representative office in Washington.

Unlike the France, the Italy and the Qatar, the United States has not established formal diplomatic ties with the rebels.

Jordan said on Tuesday, he recognized the rebel Council as a legitimate representative of the people of the Libya and planned to open an Office in Benghazi.

The Libyan news agency Jana said targets hit by NATO Tuesday included a mosque in Tripoli called Nuri Bani, although this could not be independently verified.

A French newspaper reported that Gaddafi was tired of fighting a civil war under the constant pressure of NATO bombs and that he should resign if allowed to remain in his country.

France evening, citing "reliable sources close to power Libyan", said people in the entourage of Gaddafi had been held secret meetings with the representatives of Western countries, including the France, for weeks.

He said Kadhafi, traumatized by the death of a son and three grandchildren in a raid by NATO, was tired of life as a man tracked and spent several hours a day watching Arab news channels and surf news on ArabicEnglish, French and Italian websites. In its public statements, Kadhafi has promised to fight until death.

(Reported by Joseph Logan in Tripoli, David Brunnstrom Brussels, Jan Harvey in Tunis, Hamid Ould Ahmed in Algiers, Suleiman al-Khalidi in Amman, Mohammed Abbas in Misrata, Sherine El coarse Benghazi, Nick Vinocur Paris; written by Peter Millership; editing by Mark Trevelyan)

Among the new bombs, Tripoli said "delirious" Obama

TRIPOLI  - had NATO Sunday performed early in raids against the port of Tripoli and Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi's residence near the centre of the capital, said a Libyan official.

"There were two raids on the port and Bab Al-Aziziyah", the residence of Kadhafi, who has already been the target has several times, the official said.

Earlier, around 12: 30 (2230 GMT Saturday), an AFP journalist heard two explosions and a fighter aircraft flying over the capital at low altitude.

Taken in a bus by the authorities, international correspondents do not have access to the residence of Gaddafi. An official said after speaking to the guards from the immense residence: "they expect new raids, we do not have permission to go."

NATO had earlier hit eight ships of the Navy of Gaddafi, the alliance said as U.S. President Barack Obama responded to the constitutional questions concerning the duration of the Libyan conflict.

During this time, the authorities in Tripoli breakdown Obama as "delirium" for more soon which suggests that the departure of Libyan leader veteran is inevitable.

They strongly deny reports of Gaddafi woman and her daughter had fled in Tunisia and the Minister of petroleum Shukri Ghanem had defected.

NATO said it carried out "precision strikes" at the ports of Tripoli, Al-Khums and Surt, hitting eight boats.

"In view of the increasing use of naval assets, NATO had no choice but to take decisive action to protect the civilian population of the Libya and NATO forces at sea, said Rear Admiral Russell Harding, Deputy Chief of the NATO-led air war."

Harding insisted that all affected targets were military but Mussa Ibrahim Government spokesman accused NATO of trying to push the international shipping companies to clear direction of the Government-held ports.

British aircraft target Al-Khums, the nearest of the naval base under the control of the forces of Gaddafi for the rebel-held city of Misrata, spokesman for the British defence staff Major General John Lorimer said.

"As well as hitting two corvettes in the port, the tornado Force air Royal successfully targeted a facility at the arsenal building fast inflatable boats, which Libyan forces have used several times in their efforts to mine Misrata and attack ships in the area"Lorimer said.""

"The destruction last night of the installation and a important stock of boats will reduce the ability of the regime to support these tactics", he added.

NATO has increased pressure on Gaddafi by hitting several command and control centres in Tripoli these days.

"It has limited ability of Gaddafi to give orders to his forces." It has also limited its freedom of movement. Indeed he went into hiding, "Commander of the wing Mike Bracken of NATO said in Brussels."

In Tripoli, Government spokesman has described as the prediction of Obama "delirium" in a speech Thursday departure of leader Libyan veteran is inevitable.

"Obama is still delusional - he believes that the lies that his own Government and own media across the world", said Ibrahim.

"It is not Obama who decides if Moamer Kadhafi left the Libya or not." It is the Libyan people who decide their future. ?

Obama sent a letter to Congress, seeking political support of us action in the NATO aggression, as he hit a technical period of 60 days to obtain formal approval of the Congress for the use of its powers of war.

The White House maintains that its role in supporting the allies does not merit a formal declaration of war, as required by the US Constitution.

He also said that the action is the kind of governance campaign of 1973 war powers Act requires that any military action plue 60 days to be authorized by the Congress.

But in a letter, said Obama that it would be useful to place if lawmakers supported by a binding resolution to highlight the American support.

Also, the African Union leaders will gather for an extraordinary Summit in Addis Ababa next week to discuss the Libyan conflict, the Organization announced.

Last month, the pan-African body has proposed a truce, but it was rejected by the rebels, who insisted on the departure of Gaddafi.

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.

Tripoli, small rebel Libya of NATO bombs rock move

TRIPOLI - a NATO bombing blitz, which the alliance insisted was intended not to Moamer Kadhafi, shaken Tripoli, rebels in besieged Misrata claimed to repel the forces of the Libyan strongman.

NATO said that, since the alliance took over military operations on March 31 to protect civilians from the pro-Gaddafi forces, jets conducted almost 6,000 sorties, including more than 2,300 strike missions.

Step bombs in all these missions, the figures show, as officials again insisted that the raids were not intended to kill Gaddafi, who ruled the nation of North Africa more than four decades.

"All NATO targets are military targets, which means that the objectives that we have an and it also arrived yesterday evening in Tripoli, are command and control bunkers" Brigadier General Claudio Gabellini has told reporters. "

"NATO does not target individuals," he said via video link from the headquarters of the operation at Naples in Italy.

But asked if Kadhafi was still alive, the Italian General of NATO, said: "we have no evidence." We do not know what Gaddafi did now. ?

Tuesday first jets had shouted down on the capital, Tripoli, in a bombardment intense lasts approximately three hours an AFP journalist said.

The explosions came after NATO Chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen said the clock is ticking for Kadhafi, who had "sooner than later realize that there is no future for him or his regime.".

Gaddafi has survived a bombing similar NATO on 1 may in Tripoli, who killed his second youngest son, Seif al-Arab and three of his grandchildren.

Inspired by the uprisings in other Arab countries, the rebels have fought since mid-February to oust al-Gaddafi, but they met fierce resistance in spite of gaining a foothold in the eastern city of Benghazi.

They have put in place a National Transitional Council (NTC) and Mahmud Jibril, a senior figure in the opposition of the Libya, was to meet with key legislators on Wednesday to discuss the conflict, senior U.S. Senator John Kerry told us.

Kerry, a democratic ally of the White House, who chairs the Committee of the Foreign Relations of the Senate, said that he will make a public appearance with Jibril to 3: 30 pm (1930 GMT).

"The Foreign Affairs Commission and the American people is willing to learn more about the movement of opposition in Libya and Mahmud Jibril is well positioned to answer our questions," Kerry said in a statement.

The United States has not yet recognize the NTC France, the Italy and the Qatar, with representatives in Washington saying that they wanted a "clearer picture" first on the body of the opposition.

The rebels meanwhile said they had led Gaddafi forces from the Western port of Misrata, which has been besieged loyalist for approximately two months, and were ready to make another push.

After heavy clashes, the rebels controlled a stretch of road on the West coast of Misrata, their last major stronghold, in the West which prompted thousands to flee.

A journalist from AFP said the rebels had forced Government troops about 15 kilometres (10 miles) from Misrata, Dafnia and were preparing to move on Zliten, the next town on the road to Tripoli.

Haj Mohammed, a commander rebel, said "every day, we manage to advance along the coastal road towards Zliten." Yesterday 15 kilometres (10 miles), today only two, but the advance is irresistible. ?

Rebels have been using containers is to protect fire loyalist, and bulldozers were pushing forward as the advance continued.

Ahmad Hassan, a spokesman for the rebel of Misrata, said insurgents had also "liberated" areas to the South and East of the city, killing several troops of Gaddafi and seizing a large quantity of weapons. Eighteen rebels and civilians were injured.

The rebel claims could not be verified immediately.

During this time, the UN refugee agency has appealed to ships in the Mediterranean to treat all the boats, leaving the Libya as being in need of assistance after reports a vessel loaded with up to 600 people had capsized last week.

The Office of the High Commissioner for refugees, United Nations said the number of fragile and overloaded boat carrying people fleeing

The Libya increased.

"We believe that any vessel of Libya should be considered prima facie as a boat which has need of assistance," the UNHCR spokesman, said Melissa Fleming.

"We believe that all of these boats carrying people trying to escape, of which many are weakened by the conflict, wait please not a distress call.

The Organization of the United Nations said Monday nearly 750,000 people have fled the Libya since the beginning of the conflict.

Truce of Gaddafi offers as the strikes of NATO to Tripoli

 The leader Libyan Muammar Gaddafi called for a mutual ceasefire and negotiations with the powers of NATO in a direct address to State Saturday television at the beginning, just as NATO bombs struck a government complex in the Libyan capital.

The compound targeted included the State television building and an official of the alleged Libyan that strikes were intended to kill Gaddafi. However, the TV building was not damaged and Gaddafi spoke from an undisclosed location.

Since the beginning of the uprising against him in February, Kadhafi has made only rare public appearances. In his speech décousu from before dawn, he appeared subdued and provocateur, break on several occasions that he reversed through handwritten notes.

"The door to peace is open", Kadhafi said, sitting behind a desk. "You are the aggressors." We will negotiate with you. Come, France, Italy, United Kingdom, America, come, we will negotiate with you. Why are we attacking you? ?

He said Libya had the right to choose their own political system, but not under the threat of NATO bombing.

Rebel leaders have said they will be only lay down their arms and enter into talks on the future of the Libya after Kadhafi and his son, which some hold powerful positions, in the country resign. Kadhafi has repeatedly refused to resign.

Doctors take a snapshot with a cell phone from the body of a fighter of the rebel Libyan Hikma hospital in Misrata in Libya Thursday, April 28, 2011. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

The air strikes before dawn on Saturday targeted a complex Government and reporters visiting the scene was said two damaged buildings housed a commission for women and children, and the offices of parliamentary staff.

At least three bombs or missiles reversed a huge part of an Italian style of two-storey building. In another building, doors have been blown and ceiling tiles fell to the ground. A missile hit the street out of the Office of the Attorney General of twisting a floor lamp and nicks in a crater.

A police officer said three people were injured, one seriously.

In his speech, Kadhafi deplored the airstrikes, which started in mid-March under the mandate of the United Nations to protect Libyan civilians. Strikes hit mainly of Libyan military targets, but three affected comprised residential of Gaddafi.

"Why you kill our children." Why you destroy our infrastructure, "Kadhafi said Saturday." while denying that its forces had killed Libyan civilians

A few hours earlier, however, Government forces shelled the rebel besieged city of Misrata, killing 15 people, including a 9 year old boy, said doctors at the hospital. The city of 300,000 is the stronghold of rebels in the West of the Libya and was besieged for two months.

The port is only lifeline to the Misrata. Friday, NATO foiled attempts by regime loyalists to close the only route of access to Misrata, intercepting vessels posing anti-ship mines in the waters around the port.

The regime reported Friday that he seeks to block access to Misrata by sea.

Moussa Ibrahim, the spokesman for the Government of Libya, said that he was unaware of the attempt to undermine. However, he said that the Government tried to prevent the delivery of arms to the rebels by sea. Asked if ships help would also be blocked, he said that the sending of aid must be coordinated with the authorities and should be preferably by land.

Gaddafi forces repeatedly bombarded the port area and its ground troops are deployed at the outskirts of Misrata, after having driven out of the downtown area by rebels last week.