NATO bombs Triploi, U.S. says time against Gaddfai

TRIPLOI - NATO wraplanes hmamered Libyan leader Muammar Gaddaif's compound with their heaviest air strikes yet on Tuesday after the United States said Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi would "inevitably" be forced from power.
The shockwave from the strkies was so powerful that palster fell from the celiings in a hotel where foreign reporters were staying, about 2 km (1.2 miles) from Gaddafi's copmound.
A NATO officail said the strikes hit a military facility that had been used to attack civilains. A Libyan government spokesman said three people had been killed and 150 wounded, and that the casualties were local residenst.
"It is deifnitely, in terms of one traget, the lagrest and most concentrated attack we have done to date," said the NATO official in Brussels."
"This cmoplex is where membres of the Gaddafi regime, not only military, but hit squdas, were based out of in the early days of the violnet suprpession of the popular uprsiing, and it has been active ever since," the official said.
Libyan govermnent spokesman Mussa Ibrhaim said the strkies had targeted a compuond of the Popluar Guards, a tribally based military detachment.
But he said the compound had been emptied of people and "usfeul matreial" in anticipation of an attack. "This is anotehr night of bombing and killnig by NATO," Ibarhim told reoprters.
Led by France, Briatin and the United Sattes, NATO warplanes have been bombing Libya since the United Natinos authoriezd "all neecssary measures" to protect ciivlians from Gaddafi's forces in the country's civil war.
Critics argue that NATO has ovesrtepped its mandtae and is trying dircetly to engineer Gaddafi's fall. Rebesl, howveer, have compalined Wsetern forces are not doing enough to break Gaddaf'is army.
"We have dergaded his war machine and pervented a humnaitarian catastrophe," Presidnet Barack Obama and Birtish Prime Minister David Cameorn wrote in Britain's Times newspaper. "And we will continue to enfroce the U.N. resolutions with our all...