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Gaddafi's family killed in airstrike

Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi's youngest son and three grandchildren were killed in an air strike Saturday, a spokesman said, after rebels and NATO dismissed an offer for talks to end Libya's crisis.

"The house of Mr Seif al-Arab Muammar Gaddafi... who is the youngest of the leader's children, was attacked tonight with full power. The leader with his wife was there in the house with other friends and relatives," government spokesman Moussa Ibrahim told a news conference in Tripoli early on Sunday.

"The attack resulted in the martyrdom of brother Seif al-Arab Muammar Gaddafi, 29 years old, and three of the leader's grandchildren," Ibrahim said
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"The leader himself is in good health; he wasn't harmed. His wife is also in good health; she wasn't harmed, (but) other people were injured," he said.

"This was a direct operation to assassinate the leader of this country."

Ibrahim had earlier taken journalists to the remnants of a house in Tripoli. Given the level of destruction, it is unclear that anyone could have survived, raising the possibility that if Gaddafi was there, he had left beforehand.

Three loud explosions were heard in Tripoli on Saturday evening as jets flew overhead.

The Libyan rebel capital Benghazi was rocked by sustained gunfire and explosions as fighters celebrated reports that Seif al-Arab was killed.

In an early Saturday speech on state television, Muammar al-Gaddafi had said that NATO "must abandon all hope of his departure.

"I have no official functions to give up: I will not leave my country and will fight to the death," he said.

But he added a conciliatory note.

"We are ready to talk with France and the United States, but with no preconditions," Gaddafi said.

"We will not surrender, but I call on you to negotiate. If you want petrol, we will sign contracts with your companies -- it is not worth going to war over.

"Between Libyans, we can solve our problems without being attacked, so pull back your fleets and your planes," he told NATO.

His call was dismissed by the opposition Transitional National Council, which has shaped itself into a parallel government in the eastern city of Benghazi, and by NATO.

"The time for compromise has passed," said TNC vice chairman Abdul Hafiz Ghoga.

"The people of Libya cannot possibly envisage or accept a future Libya in which Gaddafi's regime plays any role," he added.

In Brussels, a NATO official also rejected talks. "We need to see not words but actions," the official told AFP.

UN Security Council Resolution "1973 explicitly calls for an end to attacks on and abuses of civilians. The regime has announced ceasefires several times before and continued attacking cities and civilians," the official said.

The regime threatened to attack any ships trying to enter the rebel-held port of Misrata, after tanks launched an assault on the city east of Tripoli.

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