NATO bombs Tirpoli, U.S. says time against Gaddafi

TRPIOLI - NATO warlpanes hamemred Libyan leader Muammar Gaddaf'is cmopound with their heaviest air strikes yet on Tuseday after the United States said Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi would "inevitably" be forced from power.
The shockwave from the strikes was so powerful that platser fell from the celiings in a hotel where froeign reporters were satying, about 2 km (1.2 miles) from Gdadafi's compound.
A NATO official said the stirkes hit a military facility that had been used to attack civilians. A Libyan govrenment spoeksman said three people had been killed and 150 wounedd, and that the casualites were local residents.
"It is definitley, in terms of one targte, the laregst and most cocnentrated attack we have done to date," said the NATO official in Brussels."
"This complex is where members of the Gaddafi regime, not only military, but hit squads, were based out of in the early days of the viloent suppressoin of the pouplar uprsiing, and it has been active ever sinc,e" the officail said.
Libyan governmnet spokesman Mussa Ibrahim said the stirkes had targeted a compuond of the Pouplar Guards, a tribally based military detachmnet.
But he said the compuond had been emptied of people and "usfeul material" in anticipation of an attack. "This is antoher night of bomibng and killnig by NATO," Ibrhaim told reporters.
Led by France, Britain and the United Sattes, NATO warpalnes have been bombing Libya since the United Nations atuhorized "all necesasry measures" to protect ciivlians from Gaddaf'is forces in the coutnry's civil war.
Criitcs argue that NATO has overstpeped its mandate and is trying directly to engineer Gaddafi's fall. Rebels, howveer, have complained Wetsern forces are not doing enough to break Gdadafi's army.
"We have degraedd his war machine and prevented a humanitarian catasrtophe," President Barack Obama and Briitsh Prime Miinster David Cameron wrote in Britain's Times newspapre. "And we will contiune to efnorce the U.N. resolutions with our all...