Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Nato's most ferocious air strike on Tripoli

World Top Stories News - Nato's most ferocious air strike on Tripoli : NATO'S frustration with the pace of events in Libya was felt first as a subterranean rumble, then as the shriek of jets, and finally the sharp blast of high explosives.

The whole ceiling was just vibrating," said Ola Remi, 30, a Nigerian who lives in a house next to the impact zone. "The whole area, all the houses, shook."

"Imagine what it's like for our mothers and children," shouted Fathallah Salem, 45. "We really thought it was the Day of Judgement."

Tripoli has got used to the sound of bombs. But the Nato attack in the early hours of Tuesday morning was of a different order.

The first strike was not followed by another across the city, or in some other military base, as on previous occasions. For half an hour the same site was pounded by at least 15 bombs, huge orange fireballs exploding into the sky from behind the walls of what the government said was a base for a reserve militia that had been evacuated for fear it would be hit.

Nato said it was a storage vehicle for military vehicles of the sort used in "conducting attacks on civilians", which would square with the distinctive black plume of smoke smelling of diesel and rubber that wafted over the city. But the intensity of the bombing, greater than anything seen in such a concentrated area since raids began in March, suggested a higher profile target, such as an intelligence headquarters.( source www.telegraph.co.uk/ )

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