Monday, June 20, 2011

NATO Admits Killing Civilians in Libya Strike. "The air strikes are meant to protect civilians, but they are killing dozens of civilians," Bishop Giovanni Innocenzo Martinelli, the apostolic vicar of Tripoli, told Reuters


http://www.almanar.com.lb/english/adetails.php?eid=19556&cid=21&fromval=1

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NATO admitted responsibility for air raid which killed civilians in Tripoli on Sunday (19 June 2011)..
The alliance claimed the intended target was a missile site, but "it appears that one weapon" did not hit it.
Libyan officials said that the raid killed nine civilians including two babies...

Libyan officials added that Sunday’s attack, which took place shortly after midnight in one of the capital's poorer neighborhoods, had also injured 18 people.

The officials denied the incident, with Deputy Foreign Minister Khaled Kaim said the incident represented a "deliberate targeting of civilian houses".


"Basically, this is another night of murder, terror and horror in Tripoli caused by NATO”, a government spokesman, Moussa Ibrahim, said at a local hospital were reporters were taken to and shown bodies of killed people.

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http://rt.com/usa/news/bishop-reports-civilian-deaths-tripoli/

Vatican official reports 40 civilians dead in Tripoli

The Catholic Bishop in Tripoli has indicated that dozens of civilians have been killed in the Tajoura neighborhood following NATO airstrikes.

"The air strikes are meant to protect civilians, but they are killing dozens of civilians," Bishop Giovanni Innocenzo Martinelli, the apostolic vicar of Tripoli, told Reuters. “In the Tajoura neighborhood, around 40 civilians were killed, and a house with a family inside collapsed.”

He said a number of civilian buildings have been destroyed or damaged.

In the Buslim neighborhood, due to the bombardments, a civilian building came down, it is not clear how many people were inside,” the Bishop added.

Martinelli said he has heard from a number of people in the area, citing “people who work with us, who have many contacts with residents, who are on the ground and know the situation very well.”

NATO said it would investigate the report, but insisted there had been no civilian casualties in Tripoli.