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.

NATO strikes target compound Gaddafi: witnesses

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.

Armed men attacked the Governor of Kandahar compound

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - insurgents launched an attack brazen on the Governor of Kandahar House compound on Saturday, with loud explosions heard in the city in Afghan South and at least three civilians injured as security forces battled armed men hidden in a shopping centre.

An explosion was heard near the Governor Tooryalai Wesa heavily guarded compound in the Centre of the city and another explosion was heard minutes later in the West of the city, a witness for Reuters and the official said.

Shooting broke out after the first explosion and Reuters witness said that he could see armed men take shopping centre compound of the Governor, where security forces returned fire as general expenses with helicopters.

"The Taliban attack compound of the Governor and the battles are continuing.". Three civilians in the compound were wounded, but the staff of the Governor is all end, "spokesman of the Wesa, Zalmai Ayoubi, said Reuters to compound."

It was not immediately clear what had caused the explosions. The Reuters witness said that he could see smoke black near compound of Wesa, which also surrounds the House of the Governor. Ayoubi, stated that the Governor was inside and unharmed.

The Taliban last week, announced the start of their "spring offensive", promising to intensify their attacks against foreign troops and the representatives of the Afghan Government. These threats were reissued after the assassination of the Allied al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in neighboring Pakistan.

A Taliban spokesman, said the militant group had carried out the attack but said it was unrelated to the death of Osama bin Laden.

"A number of fighters is in several places around the city." These are not attacks in retaliation for the death of Osama bin Laden but are part of our spring offensive, "Qari Yousuf Ahmadi told Reuters from an undisclosed location."

Kandahar, birthplace of the Taliban, has been the subject of military operations in the past year and military commanders have said they have made some progress in security, but that it was fragile and reversible.

Violence in Afghanistan reached its worst in 2010 levels, given that the Taliban were overthrown in late 2001, with record losses on all parties to the conflict.

Last month, hundreds of prisoners, especially the insurgents, escaped from a prison in Kandahar via a tunnel dug by militants, spokesman Taliban President Afghan Hamid Karzai, described as a "disaster" for the Government.

Days before, a suicide bomber wearing a uniform police killed Khan Mohammed Mujahid, Kandahar police chief GEN.

The Taliban have managed to achieve a number of attacks of prestige within the city of Kandahar and the capital, Kabul, more despite the Afghans and abroad of the past year forces strengthen security around these two cities.

The Taliban have issued a statement later Friday their condolences for the death of Ben Laden, who was killed in a raid of U.S. in Pakistan Monday, but said that his death would only revive their fight in Afghanistan.