Zohra Bensemra, Reuters / Landov
After Col. Muammar Gaddafi’s forces spent the day hammering Libyan rebels who had re-taken the city of Misrata, NATO airstrikes did some hammering back, hitting Gaddafi’s sprawling residence in Tripoli. A security guard said two bombs rocked the compound just after midnight Monday morning, and a Libyan official accompanying Western journalists to the scene said that 45 people had been injured, 15 seriously. It’s unclear where Gaddafi was during the bombing, but a meeting room adjacent to his office was destroyed, along with sofas, chandeliers, and a separate three-story building that was part of the compound. Heavy explosions pounded other parts of central Tripoli as well, briefly cutting off transmissions of state television and causing significant damage.
