Harding Description This contradicts the claim rebel.Komandan troops operating North Atlantic Organization (NATO),an indirect one to admit that they shot during an air raid on Libya, on Thursday. However,NATO refused to apologize for that mistake because it was never told the rebels that they use the loot from the army tanks Muammar Gaddafi's regime so that the target of the bombing.
"It seems our two air strikes yesterday may have caused fatalities [on the rebels]," said Vice Admiral Russell Harding,the deputy head of the British NATO operations, was quoted by the Associated Press in Naples,Italy,Friday,April 8,2011.
However, "I refuse to apologize," said Harding. "The situation on the ground when it was and is still very liquid [uncertain] and until yesterday we had no information forces [the rebels] that uses a number of tanks," he continued.
Description Harding, contradict the claims of the rebels. According to ABC news station, Friday, April 8, 2011, NATO has sent pemerintaan sorry and it is accepted by one rebel leader, Suleiman Rafardi. However, according to him, the apology was not enough NATO placate rebels.
According to the Associated Press news agency, misdirected air strikes took place outside Brega - a strategic city that became oil port - on Thursday local time. According to ABC, the number of casualties among the target increased to at least 13 people and 10 others injured.
A rebel commander, Ayman Abdul-Karim, said she saw a number of tanks and a convoy of vehicles bombs rebels sentenced by NATO warplanes. He revealed that there are a number of rebel vehicles, based on the advice of NATO, are colored yellow at the top to avoid being shot.
The problem is, there are rebels who use a number of tanks and military vehicles from Libya booty. Vehicles that have not been characterized that is the target of bombing NATO fighter jets, which thought it was Gaddafi's convoy.
NATO Secretary General, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, is only expressed regret over casualties. He considered that the NATO-led coalition forces do my best moment so as not to harm civilians during air attacks on army positions Gaddafi.
NATO states only run the military operation in the form of application of fly zones for Libyan fighter planes while protecting civilians from attacks Gaddafi's troops. That in accordance with the mandate of the UN Security Council resolution 1973.
