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NATO steps up bombing in Libya; rebels report gains <http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/france-says-london-will-host-political- talks-next-week-on-libyas-future/2011/03/23/ABUKXew_gallery.html> http://www.washingtonpost.com/rf/image_606w/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2011/05 /10/Foreign/Advance/Images/5-10Libya010-2033.jpg By Michael Birnbaum, Tuesday, May 10, 11:50 AM TRIPOLI, Libya - NATO increased its bombing operations against Tripoli on Tuesday, carrying out the largest attacks in weeks as rebels appeared to make advances in their efforts to break the siege of the key western city of Misurata. The attacks on Tripoli occurred in the early hours of Tuesday morning. Jets could be heard booming over the city. Several large explosions followed, and NATO said its warplanes hit three "command-and-control" targets in the capital. NATO said its airstrikes also hit targets in Mizdah, a town 114 miles south of Tripoli; Sirte, a stronghold of Moammar Gaddafi on the Gulf of Sidra; and Misurata, a port 131 miles east of Tripoli and the only rebel-held city in the western part of the country. <http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/map-tracking-events-in-libya/2011/03/07 /AFsjae3C_graphic.html> Follow how events are unfolding in Libya. Follow how events are unfolding in Libya. The Libyan government took journalists to a hospital in central Tripoli that was next door to a government office building apparently hit by the attacks. Residents and workers there said the building was either a communications or intelligence center, although a government minder said it was currently used by the Agriculture Ministry. "We are diminishing Gaddafi's capacity to issue orders, to field troops and to fly regime jets," Italian Brig. Gen. Claudio Gabellini, the chief operations officer of the NATO campaign, said in a news conference in Naples on Tuesday. The hospital also sustained damage, with some blown-out windows and damaged light fixtures. Government minders said one child was cut by broken glass, but they would not allow journalists to see the child, saying that he was in intensive care. Elsewhere in Tripoli, NATO apparently hit a library and school site that workers said was the World Center for Study and Research of the Green Book, Gaddafi's eccentric founding document for the country. The colonial-era building had apparently sustained a direct hit, and clouds of concrete dust billowed above the remains of what workers said had been the library. "This is not a military place," said Hosin Bangarza, a worker there. The building is about 30 yards from a large communications tower, which was not hit in the raid, and is part of the same complex as the Libyan parliament, government workers said. The same building was hit just over a week ago. At least five bombings could be heard over the course of the night. Smoke could also be seen coming from the direction of Gaddafi's compound, although it was not clear whether it had been hit. Government officials refused to specify other bombing sites. "All NATO targets are military targets," Gabellini said. He denied that the alliance was trying to kill Gaddafi. He said nearly 6,000 sorties have been flown since the NATO air campaign began at the end of March. East of Tripoli, rebels appeared to make gains, pushing westward along the coast from Misurata, according to residents reached by Skype who asked to remain anonymous to preserve their safety. Rebel officials in Benghazi, the de facto rebel capital in eastern Libya, said heavy fighting took place Monday between the oil terminal of Brega and the strategic city of Ajdabiya. Special correspondent Portia Walker in Ajdabiya, Libya, contributed to this report. 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