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NATO missiles hit near composed Gaddafi

The Pentagon said the US Air Force conducted its first in Libya drone missile strike Saturday although he gives no details.

Representatives of the Libyan Government has confirmed that NATO conducted another series of air strikes on Tripoli Saturday at the start.

Journalists have been taken for a non-asphalt next to sprawling conspiracy Bab Aziziyeh residential composed of Libyan dictator Muammar al-Gaddafi.

They have shown two craters, apparently of missiles, which had pierced through the thick layers of reinforced concrete, laying bare what looked like a bunker system.

Eight narrow military-issue metal boxes were stacked near one of the craters.

It was not clear what military equipment contained caisses.

Loud booms were heard in the city early Saturday, apparently from air strikes. There was no immediate reports of victims.

NATO intervened in the Libyan veteran in mid-March, unleashing air strikes against Libyan military targets as part of a A mandate to protect Libyan civilians.

Reports that two missiles hit the compound came shortly after the Libyan Government has said that it was ready to withdraw from Misrata, 190 km from Tripoli. And it seems, is what happened.

Government troops withdrew to the outskirts of Misrata, within the framework of rebels fire Saturday and the opposition claimed victory after almost two months of fighting in the third largest city.

A spokesman said rebel soldiers had booby trapped bodies and buildings as they fled. Reports Saturday that the hospital is still under the control of the forces of Gaddafi.

However, most of the city of 300,000 people has been quiet with rebel forces with several key buildings that had been filled with soldiers of the Government, including snipers. A building eight floors of insurance - number of shells and scorched Windows - had been used by snipers, because he was the highest in Central Misrata and commanded a view of the city.

Fighting only Saturday was in the suburbs of the city, where about 150 soldiers from pro-Gaddafi, trying to withdraw are fighting rebels, said the spokesman, adding that ambulances were pick up of dead and wounded.

Kaim of Khaled Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs has sought to portray the move as a decision by the heads of tribes to give the army an ultimatum to resign if it cannot regain control of Misrata. The heads of tribes would fight the rebels, Kaim said late Friday night.

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No truce Libya until Gaddafi goes: rebels

Leaders of the opposition Libya Monday roundly rejected a cease-fire plan hatched the day before between leader Muammar al-Gaddafi and dignitaries African Union, no agreement, it is possible to Gaddafi and his sons to abandon power.

"Kadhafi and his son must immediately leave the territory," said Mustafa Abdul-Jalil, a Minister of justice former who split with Gaddafi and leaders based in Benghazi Transitional National Council, a handful of countries recognize as the legitimate Government.

Abdul Jalil said the proposal of the African Union "did not respond to the aspirations of the Libyan people" and implies political reforms only.

Thousands of demonstrators in the city of bastion Benghazi opposition demonstrated outside the hotel where the five country African Union delegation arrived Monday to confer with the rebels. Envoys to y, including South African President Jacob Zuma, Gaddafi met on Sunday and said that he agreed to a plan for a ceasfire, the opening of channels for humanitarian aid and talks between the rebels and the Government.

But the opposition of the Libya has little faith in the African Union, which he considered as too sympathetic to Qaddafi. He enjoys substantial support from countries of the African Union, an organization he chaired two years earlier and helped transform using the oil wealth of the Libya.

Locals on the ground, said that they did not expect the talks to nothing - and if the proposal is called in any way that Gaddafi and his son to stay in power, they wanted nothing to do with it, Derek Stoffel CBC reported.

"Gaddafi and all his sons must leave the Libya so that we can have democracy," demonstrating Jilal Tajouri said.

Son of Gaddafi Seif el-Islam said it is "totally ridiculous" to discuss same out of his father to power, but he acknowledged that the direction of the country is in need of an infusion of "new blood".

"The departure of [Gadhafi] what this either not change because the Libyan people allow a terrorist group to run the Libya," al-Islam, said in an interview with the chain of BFM broadcast Monday French information.

"If the West wants that democracy, a new constitution, elections, we are in agreement....". But aerial bombardment, the support to rebel groups, everything that is counterproductive. ?

The opposition also wants what he calls "freedom of expression" - essentially, freedom for people to openly manifest against Gaddafi. If they can do that without armed Government reprisals, the opposition feels, the conflict will be more quickly that people feel safe enough to demonstrate in the streets of Tripoli.

The meetings of Monday came hours after Gaddafi tanks beating NATO air strikes, assisting government troops previous opposition push that had been advancing towards Benghazi.

While diplomatic efforts continued behind the scenes, the battle continued on the ground. After the recovery of the city of Adjabiyah on Monday, rebels bombed Brega with the rockets, trying to return to the fortress.

The rebels, said Neil Macdonald of CBC News, they have been in constant contact with NATO forces - a marked departure from the debacle of last week, when veterans more than two dozen opposition were killed accidentally in a NATO airstrike after the pilot thought rebel tanks seized were troops of Gaddafi.

This communication link is important, because it closer NATO in a war effort was coordinated with the rebels against the forces of Kadhafi fieldwork, something Western leaders have been reluctant to recognize could happen.

"NATO welcomes all contributions to the broad international effort to stem the violence against the civilian population," said Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Secretary General of NATO.

Protesters demonstrate in Benghazi, where a delegation of the African Union has been meeting with the Libyan opposition leaders to try to forge a ceasefire. (Derek Stoffel/CBC) Records of the SRC Derek Stoffel and Neil Macdonald returned to the accessibility links

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