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Africa North
4 blasts shake Tripoli after NATO sorties
2011-05-26
[Iran Press TV] The sound of four kabooms has echoed across Tripoli as NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the style of the American pants...
warplanes flew sorties over the Libyan capital and carried out another round of Arclight airstrikes.

The blasts rocked an area near the center of Tripoli late on Wednesday night, but the exact targets could not be identified, AFP reported.

Early on Wednesday morning, several missiles hit the Bab Al-Aziziya district of Tripoli, where Libyan ruler Muammar Qadaffy's residence is located.

NATO warplanes also attacked Qadaffy's residence on Monday. The Libyan government said nineteen people were killed and more than 150 others were maimed in the Arclight airstrikes.

Earlier on Wednesday, US President Barack B.O. Obama said pressure on Qadaffy should continue until he is forced out of power.
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