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LIBYA: NATO pounded again Sirte, Gaddafi's stronghold

AFP - NATO has kept the pressure on the forces of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi by bombarding 15 vehicles and four ground targets in the last 24 hours in Sirte, the hometown of Libyan leader on the run, said the Atlantic Alliance .

While the rebels are preparing to launch an offensive in the coastal town, NATO said its balance sheet daily destroying eleven vehicles equipped with weapons, three military vehicles and logistics an armored vehicle.

She said she also struck two military shelters, an observation and a work of genius in the town 360 km east of Tripoli.

Also on Friday, the NATO planes have attacked other targets in the Libyan regime near Tripoli, a military depot and a missile launcher, depending on the outcome of Saturday.

NATO has also hit rocket launchers near the oil city of Ras Lanouf, about twenty miles east of Sirte, a tank near El-Assah, radar and missile carrier close to Okba and two radar and a missile launcher near Al-Aziziyah.

The new strikes follow a raid by British aircraft that NATO had bombed the night from Thursday to Friday a large bunker used as a headquarters in the hometown of Libyan leader.