Western powers strike Libya for second night

TRIPOLI (Reuters) The Western powers have launched a second wave of air raids on Libya on Monday after stopping the advancing forces of Muammar Gaddafi on Benghazi and the targeting of air defenses to leave their patrol planes in the sky.
The UN-mandated intervention to protect civilians caught up in a revolt than a month against Gaddafi criticized the Arab League Amr Moussa, who questioned the need for an intense bombardment, which has killed many civilians.
But the United States, carrying out air strikes in a coalition with Great Britain, France, Italy and Canada, among others, said the campaign has been dismissed from work and an announcement of ceasefire by the Libyan army on Sunday night.
UK Ministry of Defence said one of its submarines had once guided Tomahawk missiles fired on Sunday night as part of a second wave of attacks to enforce the UN resolution.
"We and our international partners to continue operations in support of the UN Security Council Resolution 1973," a spokesman for the department.
Italy said it had also warplanes in the air after American warships and British submarines launched 110 Tomahawk missiles on Saturday night and Sunday morning.
Vice Adm. Bill Gortney, director of the U.S. Army Joint Staff, told reporters that there had been no air activity Jamahiriya new or radar emissions, but a significant decrease in the Libyan air surveillance, since the strike began Saturday.
Benghazi was not yet free of the threat, said Gortney forces, but Gaddafi in the region were in distress and suffering 'from isolation and confusion "after the air attacks.
Late at night on Sunday, Libyan officials have taken Western reporters to the compound of Gaddafi in Tripoli, a vast complex that houses his private and military barracks, antiaircraft batteries and other installations to see what that they said was the site of a missile attack two hours earlier.
"This was a barbaric attack," said government spokesman Ibrahim Moussa, showing shrapnel he said came from the missile. "This contradicts the American and Western (states) that it is not their target to attack this place. "
A Libyan military spokesman announced a new ceasefire on Sunday, saying that "the Libyan armed forces have issued an order to all military units to maintain a ceasefire from 21 o'clock tonight."
Before and after talking to them, heavy artillery anti-aircraft booming above the center of Tripoli.
Outside Benghazi, smoldering, shattered tanks and troop carriers of what had been advanced forces Gaddafi littered the main road. The charred bodies of at least 14 government soldiers were scattered in the desert.
But Gaddafi has vowed to fight to the death, there were fears its troops could try to make their way in the cities, seeking shelter against air attacks in civilian population.
In central Benghazi, sporadic explosions and heavy exchanges of gunfire could be heard in the streets late Sunday night.