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# Libya crisis: Gaddafi building 'damaged by airstrike'
## Libyan government officials take the media on tour of a Gaddafi compound
building they claim was hit by an airstrike two hours prior.
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The facade of the building in Tripoli was clearly in ruins late on Sunday,
with rubble strewn about, but there was no smoke, fire or other evidence to
suggest such a recent attack, not even any broken furniture or shattered
glass.
"It is extremely close to the leader's tent, and a house that was bombed by
the Americans in 1986," said government spokesman Musa Ibrahim. "This
contradicts American claims... that it is not their target to attack this
place."
Asked why there there was no smoke or other signs of a fresh attack, the
spokesman said: "I don't know why there is no smoke. I am not a military
expert."
A few hundred Libyans acting as human shields chanted support for Gaddafi as
journalists visited the compound.
Government officials said no one was killed or injured in what they described
as a Western missile attack.
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