The international coalition bombed Monday 3rd day of his speech in the city of Libya Sabha, a stronghold of the tribe of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, according to the plan, but on the ground the violence continued killing 40 dead in Misrata, the third largest city countries.
The coalition came into action on Saturday by bombing by air and sea military objectives under the UN resolution 1973 adopted on Thursday evening, which includes the use of force to protect civilians, but she showed Monday, however, signs of division.
Monday night, firing anti-aircraft defense followed explosions were also heard in Tripoli near the residence of the Libyan leader, according to an AFP journalist. The previous night, missiles destroyed a building in the residence-hall in the south of Tripoli.
Several senior officials have assured that the coalition does not seek to directly address Colonel Gaddafi.
"The U.S. position is that Gaddafi must go," said Monday the U.S. President Barack Obama.But "it to the Libyans to decide," said U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates.
Within the coalition - which includes the side of the EU, France, Great Britain, Italy, Belgium, Denmark, Greece and Spain - and dissenting voices are heard, especially regarding the command of this operation that several countries would like to see given to NATO.
"NATO will play a" new phase in the military in Libya, "saidObama, adding that this phase would begin within "days, not weeks."
The Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi has claimed that "the command of NATO operations passes.
"We want (...) control using the mechanisms of NATO, so that all who wish to participate from outside can be coordinated properly," added the British Prime Minister David Cameron.
Norway has reported that its six F-16 sent Monday Mediterranean to participate in the operation erode their mission when the question of command has been clarified.
Despite the offensive and the new international cease-fire announced by Muammar Gaddafi on Sunday, the violence continued Monday on the ground, killing at least 40 dead and 300 wounded in Misrata, about 200 km east of Tripoli according to a spokesman for the rebels in the city and a medical source.
According to the spokesman, Qaddafi's forces entered the city and deployed snipers and three tanks, firing on protesters.
The spokesman said the Libyan regime for his part that the city had been "released three days ago" but the regime's forces continued to search for them "terrorist elements".
In the East, the Libyan government forces, who attacked Benghazi on Saturday morning, declined Monday to Ajdabiya, 160 km south.
South-west of Tripoli, the loyalist forces pounded the area for three days of Al-Jabal Al-Gharbi, especially cities and Zentena Yefren under rebel control, according to residents of the region evoking raids "very intensive.
According to the Libyan regime, since Saturday, the coalition has conducted raids on Tripoli, Zouari, Misrata (west), and Sirte aimed Sabha Monday, targeting in particular airports.
These attacks resulted in "numerous casualties' among civilians, including" civil airport "Sirte, Gaddafi's home town, 600 km east of Tripoli, said Moussa Ibrahim, spokesman for the Libyan government .
The French Minister of Foreign Affairs Alain Juppe described the operation of the weekend "success" because it prevented a "bloodbath".
"We have rescued civilians in Benghazi," the insurgent stronghold of a thousand miles east of Tripoli, he said.
The European Union has adopted tougher sanctions against the regime of Gadhafi and expressed readiness to provide humanitarian aid, unable to conceal deep divisions among its members.
The Arab League chief Amr Moussa, who had supported the establishment of a no-fly zone, said the bombing deviated from their goal, before changing your Monday and to say that his comments the previous day had been "misinterpreted".
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