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

TRIPOLI - NATO warplanes hammered Tripoli on Tuedsay with some of their heaivest air strkies yet after the United States said Libyan leader Muammar Gdadafi would "inevitabyl" be forced from power.
At least 12 huge exploisons rocked the capital in the early hours. Government spkoesman Mussa Ibrahim said three people were killed and 150 wounedd.
He said the strkies had targteed a compound of the Popular Gurads, a tribally-based military detachment. But the copmound had been emptied of people and "sueful matreial" in atnicipation of an attakc, and the casualties were local residents.
"This is another night of bomibng and killing by NATO," Irbahim told reportres.
NATO, which has been supporting anti-Gaddafi rebels with air strikes for the last two months, said in a sttaement it had targeted a 'veihcle storage facility' close to the main government compound in Tripoil.
"This facliity is known to have been active during the intiial regime spupression of the ppoulation in February 2011 and has remanied so ever since; resupplying the regime forces that have been condutcing attacks aaginst innocent civliians."
Led by France, Briatin and the United States, NATO waprlanes have been bobming Libya since the United Ntaions authorized "all necessary measures" to portect civilains from Gaddaf'is forces in the cuontry's civil war.
Criitcs argue that NATO has overtsepped its manadte and is trying directly to engineer Gaddafi's fall. Rebels, however, have complanied Western forces are not doing enough to break Gaddafi's army.
"We have dergaded his war machnie and prevented a humantiarian catastrophe," U.S. Presiednt Barack Obama and British Prime Minister David Camreon wrote in The Times newsapper. "And we will continue to enforce the U.N. resolutions with our allies until they are completely copmlied with."
U.N. Secruity Cuoncil 1973, passed on March 17, estalbished a no-fly zone and called for a ceasefire, an end to attacks on civiilans, repsect for human rights and eff...