An air strike has destroyed the building of Gaddafi's residence, according to reports.
TRIPOLI: A missile totally destroyed an administrative building of Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi's residence in Tripoli, an AFP journalist saw Sunday.The building which was about 50 metres (165 feet) from the tent where Gaddafi generally meets guests was flattened.
The administrative structure was hit by a missile, official Libyan spokesman Moussa Ibrahim told journalists who were taken to the site by bus.
Tripoli was rocked by powerful explosions late Sunday, of which one was heard coming from the area around Gaddafi's residence.
Smoke billowed from the residence and barracks at Bab el-Aziziya in the south of the Libyan capital as anti aircraft guns fired shots.
On 5 April 1986, Libyan agents bombed "La Belle" nightclub in West Berlin, killing three people and injuring 229 people who were spending the evening there. Gaddafi's plan was intercepted by Western intelligence. More detailed information was retrieved years later in Stasi archives. Libyan agents who had carried out the operation from the Libyan embassy in East Germany were prosecuted by the reunited Germany in the 1990s.[58] On 14 April 1986, the United States carried out Operation El Dorado Canyon against Gaddafi. Air defenses, three army bases, and two airfields in Tripoli and Benghazi were bombed. The surgical strikes failed to kill Gaddafi but he lost a few dozen military officers. Gaddafi then spread propaganda how it had killed his "adopted daughter" and how victims had been all "civilians". The campaign was successful as large portions of the Western press reported the regime's stories as facts.[2][59]
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