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| NATO warns Gaddafi over use of civilian facilities |
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 NATO warned that its warplanes will bomb civilian facilities if Moamer Gaddafi's forces use them to launch attacks, as the UN said Libya's capital is suffering shortages of fuel, medicine and cash.The alliance warned on Tuesday it would target facilities including factories, warehouses and agricultural sites being used by loyalist troops. The warning came a day after foreign reporters were taken to Zliten, east of Tripoli, by government minders and shown what they were told was the remains of a clinic hit by a NATO bomb that killed seven people. Alliance military spokesman Colonel Roland Lavoie said in Brussels that in recent days NATO had hit a concrete factory near Brega where regime forces were hiding and firing multi-barrel rocket launchers. "Pro-Gaddafi forces are increasingly occupying facilities which once held a civilian purpose," Lavoie told reporters in a video conference from the operation's headquarters in Naples, Italy. "By occupying and using these facilities the regime has transformed them into military installations from which it commands and conducts attacks, causing them to lose their formerly protected status and rendering them valid and necessary military objectives for NATO," Lavoie said. Earlier, a NATO official said the alliance had "no evidence" that civilian facilities were hit in air raids near Zliten on Monday.   Socialize this Subscribe to our RSS feed to stay in touch and receive all of TT updates right in your feed reader
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