NATO Hits Tripoli in Heaviest Strikes Yet

[alp227]

Source: Associated Press

TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — NATO warplanes bombarded this city with more than 20 airstrikes early Tuesday, hitting near Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi’s residential compound in what appeared to be the heaviest night of bombing since the Western alliance began its air campaign.

The rapid string of strikes, all within 30 minutes, rattled windows and sent plumes of smoke wafting over the city. One column of smoke rose from an area close to Colonel Qaddafi’s compound, suggesting that it might have been a target.

A government spokesman, Moussa Ibrahim, said at least three people were killed and dozens wounded in NATO strikes that hit what he described as buildings used by volunteer units of the Libyan Army.

NATO said in a statement that a number of the strikes had hit a vehicle storage building that had been used to supply Colonel Qaddafi’s forces who were “conducting attacks on civilians.” It was not clear if the storage site was the only target hit, but it was next door to the Qaddafi compound, which includes a number of military facilities and has been pounded repeatedly by NATO.

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/24/world/africa/24libya.html

[IamK]

1. Sweet Justice!! or something.... I think.....?? n/t

[tabatha]

2. Listen to the Libyans watching NATO jets

http://www.youtube.com/user/libyaresistance

[joshcryer]

3. Extremely interesting find tabatha.

[tabatha]

4. It was found at two places

http://feb17.info/ and the AJE Libya blog.

I hope Iterate is OK.

And you would like this video, too.

http://edition.cnn.com/video/#/video/world/2011/05/23/robertson.libya.saving.enemy.cnn

[pinboy3niner]

5. Two months ago it was the covert 'whistlers on the roof'

http://upload.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=439&topic_id=744173&mesg_id=747823

(And, 2 months late, I discover that I neglected to include the link in that post. My bad! DU3's no-deadline editing window suddenly is sounding better. :) )