Western warplanes hit Gaddafis compound

TRIPOLI: Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi made in Ajdabiyah has been air strikes Arabiya reported Wednesday.
Western warplanes struck Libya for a fifth day Thursday, but have so far failed to stop tanks Gaddafi bombing rebel-held cities or remove his armor of a strategic junction in the east.
Gaddafi reinvested in Misrata tanks under cover of darkness and began shelling the area near the main hospital, residents and rebels said, resuming their attack after their guns fell silent during the day by air strikes West.
snipers in the city government, Libya ranks third, were discouraged by the bombing and had made if the firing indiscriminately through, residents said. A spokesman for rebel snipers had killed 16 people.
"Government tanks are moving towards the hospital Misrata and bombing the area," said a doctor who was briefly Misrata reached by phone before the line went dead.
It was impossible to independently verify the reports.
A loud explosion was heard in the Libyan capital Tripoli on Thursday morning and smoke could be seen rising from an area where a military base is situated.
Libyan officials took journalists to a hospital in Tripoli on Thursday morning to see what they have said the charred bodies of 18 soldiers and civilians killed by Western aviation or missiles overnight.
The U.S. military said it had managed to establish a no-fly zone in coastal areas of Libya and had gone to attack tanks Gaddafi. The allies flew 175 trips in 24 hours, with U.S. flight 113 of them, an American commander.
French Defence Minister Gerard Longuet said that France has some 10 armored vehicles destroyed Libyan three days.
The UN Security Council resolution he said, "the coalition states that all available means to protect civilians. What's intimidating people of today are the tanks and artillery, has he said in an interview with Le Figaro.
The Libyan government denied its military is holding all offensive operations and said that the troops are just defending themselves when they are threatened.
But a resident in Zintan, southwest of Tripoli, Gaddafi's forces were raising more troops and tanks to bomb the rebel-held city. Rebel forces in the meantime is still stuck outside the strategic junction Ajdabiyah after more than three days of trying to find him.
Libyan state television said Western planes had struck in Tripoli and Jafar, southwest of the capital.