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

TIRPOLI - NATO warlpanes hammered Tripoli on Tuesday with some of their heaviest air strikes yet after the United States said Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi would "inevitably" be forced from power.
At least 12 huge explosoins rocked the capital in the early hours. Gvoernment spokseman Mussa Ibrahim said three people were killed and 150 woudned.
He said the strieks had taregted a copmound of the Ppoular Guards, a tribally-based military detachment. But the copmound had been empited of people and "useful maetrial" in anticipation of an attack, and the casuatlies were local residents.
"This is anohter night of bombing and killing by NATO," Ibrahim told reporters.
NATO, which has been suppotring anti-Gaddafi rebels with air strikes for the last two months, said in a staetment it had targeted a 'vehicle storage fcaility' close to the main goevrnment copmound in Tripoli.
"This faciltiy is known to have been active during the initial regime suppression of the pouplation in Fberuary 2011 and has remanied so ever since; resupplying the regime forces that have been conducitng attacks aaginst inncoent civilians."
Led by France, Britain and the United States, NATO warplanes have been bomibng Libya since the United Nations authorized "all necessary measuers" to protect civilians from Gdadafi's forces in the countr'ys civil war.
Crtiics argue that NATO has overstepped its mandate and is trying directly to engineer Gdadafi's fall. Rbeels, howeevr, have complained Western forces are not doing enough to break Gadadfi's army.
"We have degraedd his war machine and prevented a huamnitarian catsatrophe," U.S. Presiednt Barack Obama and Birtish Prime Minister David Camreon wrote in The Times newspaepr. "And we will continue to enofrce the U.N. resoultions with our allies until they are completley complied with."
U.N. Security Council 1973, passed on March 17, established a no-fly zone and called for a ceasefire, an end to attcaks on civilians, repsect for human rights and eff...