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on a road leading to Benghazi, an attack on government forces after the burning vehicle.

core prompt local time on March 21, multinational forces and warplanes fired 12 “Tomahawk” cruise missiles, the Libyan capital Tripoli and its surrounding many targets bombed. This is the 19 night Western countries to take on the situation in Libya, the third consecutive day since the military intervention carried out air strikes on Tripoli. For Western countries, the air raid, the Libyan forces fired anti-aircraft artillery fire to be a counter-intensive.

Western planes attacked Tripoli

airports and seaports are mostly destroyed

21 evening, in the east of Tripoli, a naval base was first multinational force planes attacked, and then about two kilometers away from the barracks of a pipeline has been hit and burst into flames. In addition, the multinational force planes also attacked at about 30 km west of Tripoli, another government barracks. Tripoli, Libyan air force in the night sky has been launched intensive artillery to be back.

after the explosion, the Libyan government spokesman Ibrahim Moussa held an emergency press conference, expressed strong protest against the bombing operations. He said Western countries for three consecutive days to launch a military strike against Libya, which is in the Libyan armed forces have announced a comprehensive ceasefire and stop all military operations occur. Libya’s most civilian airports and seaports have been destroyed in the attack.

Libyan official statistics released on the 20th, said West’s military strikes have caused 64 deaths and 150 injuries.

more than half of air defense capabilities were destroyed

Libya’s no-fly zone will be extended

U.S. Africa Command, 21 Carter Ham said the coalition’s no-fly zone set up in Libya will continue to expand, the Libyan capital Tripoli included. No-fly zone expanded at the same time, coalition aircraft may gradually reduce the number of flights.

Hamm, near Stuttgart in Germany the same day the U.S. Africa Command, a Pentagon news conference with U.S. connections. He said Libya will soon reach the no-fly zone over a radius of 1,000 km to Tripoli included. With the expansion of no-fly zone, a humanitarian relief mission in Libya has become feasible.

an unnamed senior Western official said, multinational naval and air combat has destroyed more than half of Libya’s air defense capabilities to enable multi-national aircraft have been able to concentrate more on expanding the scope of no-fly zone.

no-fly zone now covers eastern Libya, Tripoli to Benghazi region’s airspace.

Hamm said, the day coalition forces to Libya’s missile positions, command posts and air defense positions fired 12 cruise missiles.

Hamm said, the number of coalition aircraft will gradually reduce the burden of U.S. military operations do not command a long task.

U.S. fighter jets crashed in Libya

two crew members ejected

U.S. Africa Command 22, said in a statement, an Air Force F-15E fighter 21 crashed northeast of the evening in Libya, the two crew members ejected.

statement said, GMT at 21:30 on the 21st promise that this aircraft, F-15E “Strike Eagle” fighter jets over the place in northeastern Libya, “mechanical failure”, cause of the malfunction is currently under investigation.

U.S. Africa Command, said a spokesman for the 22, the two crew members ejected only minor injuries, one of them have been rescued, the other current search and rescue operations are still ongoing.

According to the British “Daily Telegraph” reported that this aircraft, the U.S. military aircraft crashed in rebel-controlled Libya, Libya’s second city Benghazi in the vicinity, the crew was rescued by the local anti-government forces rescue.

official media denied Gaddafi son died

21 Libyan opposition sources said on its website, Gaddafi’s youngest son Hamid 19 injured in Sri Lanka and killed. The message is then a number of Arab media outlets, but the Libyan state media strongly denied this, saying the rumor was “pure nonsense.”

Libyan opposition website published the news that the attack was a Libyan pilot, he was ordered to drive the day to Ai quarter Dabi Ye fighter bombing mission, but in return the way to change the course of a at the army barracks to launch suicide attacks. Khamis was then located where the attack was seriously injured in the hospital for treatment died that night.

Khamis, 27 years old, in charge of Libya’s most elite troops of the first 32 brigades, with a total strength of about 10,000, is considered the Libyan resistance against rebels and foreign troops’ last line of defense . ” In addition to his other, Gaddafi’s eight children, and at least two person in the front line troops in war. Xinhua News Agency, China Daily

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