Strike on Libya came after West intercepted high-level communications

Monday, May 2, 2011 - 02:20 in Earth & Climate

NATO and the U.S. say the building hit was being used as a command-and-control bunker. Mobs loot Western embassies in Tripoli, and Libyan TV shows a body lying in state that is identified as the son of Moammar Kadafi killed in the airstrike.A NATO missile strike that Libyan officials say killed one of Moammar Kadafi's sons and three of his grandchildren was launched after Western intelligence intercepted high-level communications from the site, NATO and U.S. military officers said.

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