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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