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NATO Has Its Heaviest Night of Bombing Yet

By Julie Gerstein

On Monday, NATO continued to target Colonel Muammar Qaddafi’s Tripoli compound, bombing the city more than twenty times in 30 minutes. According to government reports, at least three people are dead and dozens injured. [NYT]

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