Moammar Gaddafi marked his 69th birthday today (June 7). Apparently NATO thought they might join the celebrations. We're over 60 strikes today in Tripoli and action is ongoing. Are they going for 69?
It might seem that landing more than sixty big bombs in a city, in order to defend civilians, is an oxymoron. However, NATO's actions so far in Libya have been impressive and as humane as possible, given that it is a bombing campaign. When striking a convoy of vehicles (tanks, APCs, artillery, supply trucks, etc.) NATO will target the first and last vehicles and give those in the middle the chance to run. Buildings and ships get radio warnings from ten minutes to 24 hours. The Gaddafi regime has resorted to passing off babies hurt in car accidents as 'civilian casualties.' I'm sure that people uninvolved with Gaddafi have been hurt in NATO strikes but their numbers and the hatefulness of the act cannot compare to the indiscriminate shelling, strafing and besieging that Gaddafi does to those who defy him.
People are on their balconies cheering. The dictator's siege of the Western Mountains (towns and cities in the Nafusa mountains south of Tripoli) which had lasted since the beginning of the revolution is being lifted, creating a new southern threat vector for Gaddafi in Tripoli about 60 miles away.