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Published 09 Jun, 2011 10:44am

Fresh NATO strikes hit around Tripoli

Concussions from the Thursday morning strikes, in clusters of a few minutes apart, washed over Tripoli from its outskirts.

On Tuesday, NATO conducted its heaviest attacks on Tripoli since it began airstrikes two months ago in support of a rebel insurgency.

The four-month old rebel uprising seeks to push Moammar Gadhafi from power after four decades. Rebels have swaths of eastern Libya, although fighting has since become a stalemate even with NATO support.

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