NATO says destroyed Gaddafi compound guard towers

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http://uk.reuters.com/article/2011/05/28/uk-libya-idUKTRE74E1I420110528

(Reuters) - NATO aircraft destroyed the guard towers at Muammar Gaddafi's compound in Tripoli, a NATO official said on Saturday, then staged a rare daytime air strike on the Libyan capital, heightening pressure on him to quit.

"RAF Typhoons, along with other NATO aircraft, last night used precision-guided weapons to bring down guard towers along the walls of Colonel Gaddafi's Bab al-Aziziyah complex in the centre of Tripoli," Major General John Lorimer, chief British military spokesman, said in a statement.

"Last night's action sends a powerful message to the regime's leadership and to those involved in delivering Colonel Gaddafi's attacks on civilians that 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."





in the midst of all this austerity, debt, deficit scare propaganda --
they should tell us how much we're spending in bombs, raids, bullets, military aid.

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1. How Long Has This Been Going On Now And The Compound Still Exists?........

You would have thought with all the firepower NATO has that the Gaddafi compound would have been leveled to the ground by now. Why does it even still exist? It should have been obliterated. What are they waiting for? Why are they just inflicting minor damage to it instead of wiping it out completely? I don't get it.

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2. very confusing considering the # of raids.

and how much all that ordinance costs, fuel, etc.

i don't want to hear any one complain about debt & deficits ever again.
these conflicts make a mockery of them.

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3. i'll give this a kick. nt