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Muammar Gaddafi loyalists are now attacking Misurata, a besieged city in northwestern Libya, with cluster bombs and rockets, ground-floor. Cluster bombs, which hit large areas with highly explosive ammunition in the vicinity of another has been banned by most countries because they can not be fired accurately and put civilians in populated areas at risk. The bombs were visible Thursday night in what appeared to be 120 mm mortar shells burst over the city and spit "explosive bombs here," reports the New York Times. The paper has shown that the series has just shells MAT-120 cargo mortar projectiles, which each carry and distribute "21 smaller munitions designed both to kill people and to penetrate light armor." At a news conference in Berlin, Hillary Clinton said she was "not aware" of the use of cluster bombs or other types of heavy weapons, adding:
This is shocking information. And this is a reason to fight so hard because it is measured precisely because the city and poses many challenges both NATO and the opposition.
Weapons damaged in a residential area near the port city last night, the prohibition of residents to flee and aid to the wounded, were found to Grad rockets, weapons of the Soviet Union during the Cold War, and covers a series of explosions battle. Survivors and witnesses, a rocket killed eight civilians alone. Hours earlier, a group of freedom in Libya tweeted that the explosions were still heard.
Attacks on allied forces have issued a joint statement that NATO is no longer military presence until Gaddafi is ousted. NPR's Andy Carvin Measured transmit messages, saying:
People here are very clear on NATO: We need help because we can not fight against the bomb. . . We need the help of NATO aircraft, but this war is our war and we want weapons to fight on the field against Gaddafi.
Currently, about 5,000 demonstrators were protesting the main courthouse medical personnel belonging to the rebel stronghold with songs of encouragement for the attack, as the city of Misurata, where people are flying the flag of the United States, United Kingdom and France. Al Jazeera English producer Evan Hill on Twitter that he believed the demonstrators shouted,
"Zenga Zenga, to give, Muammar Ras Hamar, which is a play on the famous speech Gaddafi [threatening protesters] and called" the head of an ass. "
If you have not seen, here is the English translation of the remix version of the infamous bitter Gaddafi information.
