NATO jets in daytime strike on Libyan capital
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May 29, 2011, Sunday
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NATO aircraft destroyed the guard towers at Muammar Gadhafi's compound in Tripoli on Friday night, then staged a rare daytime air strike on the Libyan capital yesterday, a NATO official said.
"RAF Typhoons, along with other NATO aircraft, last night used precision-guided weapons to bring down guard towers along the walls of Colonel Gadhafi's Bab al-Aziziyah complex in the centre of Tripoli," Major General John Lorimer, chief British military spokesman, said in a statement yesterday.
"Last night's action sends a powerful message to the regime's leadership and to those involved in delivering Colonel Gadhafi's attacks on civilians that they are no longer hidden away from the Libyan people behind high walls," he said.
"The massive compound has not just been his home, but is also a major military barracks and headquarters, and lies at the heart of his network of secret police and intelligence agencies," Lorimer said. "Previous NATO attacks have hit command and control and other military facilities within the complex."
NATO followed its fifth straight night of attacks with a daytime strike yesterday that produced smoke coming from the area of the Gadhafi compound. A big boom shook Tripoli at about 8am GMT but it was unclear if it was caused by a bomb or missile.
A NATO spokesman said the daylight raid targeted "a vehicle storage compound 600 to 800 metres to the east of Gadhafi's so-called tent private area. It is not part of the main Gadhafi complex".
Following Friday's strikes, the Libyan state broadcaster said NATO raids also caused "human and material" damage near Mizda, to the south.
"RAF Typhoons, along with other NATO aircraft, last night used precision-guided weapons to bring down guard towers along the walls of Colonel Gadhafi's Bab al-Aziziyah complex in the centre of Tripoli," Major General John Lorimer, chief British military spokesman, said in a statement yesterday.
"Last night's action sends a powerful message to the regime's leadership and to those involved in delivering Colonel Gadhafi's attacks on civilians that they are no longer hidden away from the Libyan people behind high walls," he said.
"The massive compound has not just been his home, but is also a major military barracks and headquarters, and lies at the heart of his network of secret police and intelligence agencies," Lorimer said. "Previous NATO attacks have hit command and control and other military facilities within the complex."
NATO followed its fifth straight night of attacks with a daytime strike yesterday that produced smoke coming from the area of the Gadhafi compound. A big boom shook Tripoli at about 8am GMT but it was unclear if it was caused by a bomb or missile.
A NATO spokesman said the daylight raid targeted "a vehicle storage compound 600 to 800 metres to the east of Gadhafi's so-called tent private area. It is not part of the main Gadhafi complex".
Following Friday's strikes, the Libyan state broadcaster said NATO raids also caused "human and material" damage near Mizda, to the south.
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