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	In this photo taken during a government-organized tour, members of the media and others examine the remains of a damaged residential building in Tripoli, Libya, Sunday, June 19. The Libyan government accused NATO of bombing a residential neighborhood in the capital and killing civilians early Sunday, adding to its charges that the alliance is striking nonmilitary targets. (AP) Enlarge Photo

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Toddlers among 9 dead in alleged NATO strike: Libya

TRIPOLI -- Libyan officials showed reporters five bodies, two of them of toddlers, they said were among nine civilians killed in a “barbaric” NATO air raid Sunday, as pressure mounted on the alliance to allow a political solution.

Government spokesman Mussa Ibrahim accused the Western alliance of “deliberately targeting civilians,” insisting there were no military targets anywhere near the residential neighborhood of the capital that was hit.

NATO said it was looking into the Libyan claim.

Ibrahim demanded that the alliance end its “aggression” to pave the way for dialogue, speaking just hours after organizations including the Arab League, the European Union and the United Nations highlighted the importance of “accelerating the launch of a political process” to end the conflict.

Journalists were taken to the Al-Arada district of Tripoli before 1 a.m. (2300 GMT Saturday) to see rescue teams helped by bystanders desperately searching for survivors among the wreckage of a two-story block of flats.

An AFP correspondent saw two bodies pulled from the rubble.

Journalists were then taken to a Tripoli hospital where they were shown the bodies of a woman and two toddlers that officials said were members of the same family and had died in the raid.

Ibrahim said that four passersby were also killed, bringing the death toll to nine, and that 18 people were wounded.

A NATO official in Brussels confirmed that the alliance had planes in the air over Tripoli over the past 24 hours.

“We're aware of the claim made by the Libyan regime and we're looking into it,” a second NATO official told AFP.

If confirmed, the civilian deaths would be an embarrassment for the alliance which has been leading the bombing campaign under a U.N. mandate to protect civilians.

“It is another night of massacre, terror and horror at the hands of NATO,” the Libyan government spokesman charged.

Western leaders “are morally and legally responsible for these murders,” Ibrahim said.

“This is not propaganda. It is not something that we can stage.”

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June 20, 2011 carltanong@

Honorable Luis Moreno-Ocampo. U should sought Arrest Warrant from The International Court judges to issue arrest warrants for USA BARACK OBAMA-GREAT BRITAIN DAVID CAMERON-FRANCE NICOLAS SARKOZY as a war criminals committing crimes of ATROCITIES killing the innocence Libyans civilians and against humanity. They are all evidently notorious WAR CRIMINALS.
Not only Libyans were the victims. It includes Iraqis, Afghanis, Pakistanis and many more.

An advisory to you.
As a International Criminal Court prosecutor. You should have FAIRNESS and have GOOD JUDGEMENT. Be brave to prosecute them and lets the world lives in PEACE.

Dare u to prosecute them and HANG THEM.