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Warning: Graphic content Full Article Follow Reuters Facebook Twitter RSS YouTube Read Gaddafi loyalists resist and say NATO kills 354 Libyans | 10:17am EDT NTSB investigators at scene of deadly Nevada air race crash | 11:24am EDT Geithner's "succinct" message irks Europeans 16 Sep 2011 Scarlett Johansson naked pictures leaked on Web | 14 Sep 2011 PE firms circling AOL turn attention to Yahoo | 16 Sep 2011 Discussed 160 Al Gore in 24-hour broadcast to convert climate skeptics 134 Number of poor hit record 46 million in 2010 51 Obama tries to sell jobs plan to Congress, voters Watched Scene after plane crashes at Nevada air race Fri, Sep 16 2011 Plane crashes at Nevada air races Fri, Sep 16 2011 Dozens injured in Nevada air race crash Fri, Sep 16 2011 Gaddafi loyalists resist and say NATO kills 354 Libyans Tweet Share this Email Print Related News NATO air strikes kill 354 in Sirte: Gaddafi's spokesman 8:44am EDT Analysis & Opinion Islam can exist with democracy, Turkish PM Erdogan tells Tunisians Libya disavows extremist Islam as the world looks on Related Topics World » Libya » Related Video Anti-Gadaffi forces prepare for Sirte battle 6:44am EDT Gaddafi loyalists hold out Fighting to the finish in Libya Fighters loosen grip on Gaddafi's hometown 1 of 17. An anti-Gaddafi fighter fires a multiple-rocket launcher near Sirte, the hometown of deposed leader Muammar Gaddafi, September 17, 2011. Credit: Reuters/Goran Tomasevic By Maria Golovnina and Alexander Dziadosz BANI WALID/SIRTE, Libya | Sat Sep 17, 2011 10:17am EDT BANI WALID/SIRTE, Libya (Reuters) - Libyan interim government forces licked their wounds on Saturday after a failed assault on the town of Bani Walid, and a spokesman for Muammar Gaddafi accused NATO of killing 354 people in overnight air strikes on the city of Sirte. Moussa Ibrahim, the deposed leader's spokesman, contacted Reuters by satellite telephone to say Gaddafi was still in Libya, leading the "resistance" against his foes. He said NATO air strikes on Sirte, Gaddafi's birthplace, had hit a residential building and a hotel, killing 354 people. "We are aware of these allegations," Colonel Roland Lavoie, spokesman for the Western military alliance, said in Brussels. "It is not the first time such allegations have been made. Most often, they are revealed to be unfounded or inconclusive." The death toll could not be verified as communications with the coastal city have been scant since Tripoli fell on August 23. More than 700 people were wounded in air strikes in Sirte on Friday, Ibrahim said, and 89 were missing. "In the last 17 days more than 2,000 residents of the city of Sirte were killed in NATO air strikes," he added. Ibrahim, who put his own location as near Sirte, said Gaddafi remained in the country and was confident of victory. "We will be able to continue this fight and we have enough arms for months and months to come," he said. Gaddafi loyalists have repelled assaults by forces of the ruling National Transitional Council (NTC) on Sirte and Bani Walid, launched after failed negotiations for their surrender. Grumbles replaced gunfire outside Bani Walid as NTC fighters debated the failure of the previous day's attack and the town's defenders lobbed mortar bombs at them. "It was difficult," admitted one fighter, surprised he had survived sniper fire and rockets when his brigade raced into Bani Walid on Friday. "We'll do it differently next time." After hours of fighting, the NTC men had retreated almost as fast as they had poured into the town, in a serious setback to Libya's new rulers, trying to exert their grip across the country and seize remaining Gaddafi-held towns. TRAITORS, SNIPERS, OIL SLICKS On Saturday, NTC fighters blamed traitors, snipers and oil poured by Bani Walid's defenders down steep streets leading to the town center for their defeat. "When we entered the city, snipers shot at us from the front and traitors shot at us from the back," said fighter Abushusha Bellal. "They always play tricks and shoot us in the back." Others blamed a lack of troops, coordination and discipline among the different attacking brigades. One fighter, Nuraldin Zardi, told Reuters his brigade had missed the order to retreat and had found itself trapped and isolated inside Bani Walid hours after their comrades had fled. "We will not rely on our commanders any more," he said, reflecting growing dissent in NTC ranks. "We will do everything ourselves and take our own decisions." The first of what NTC fighters said would be an extra 1,000 men from Tripoli and elsewhere began arriving near Bani Walid. A Reuters reporter on the western highway leading to Sirte said he could hear gunfire and shelling as NTC forces advanced. But Gaddafi loyalists were holding out in Sirte on Libya's central Mediterranean coast, a day after their opponents captured the city's airport on its outskirts. "Gaddafi's troops are between the houses, there are a lot of snipers on the roofs," NTC fighter Mabrook Salem said. Nearly four weeks after Gaddafi's foes overran Tripoli, Libya's interim council is unable to declare all of the vast North African nation "liberated" and begin a timetable for drawing up a democratic constitution and holding elections. Despite their frustrations, the council is getting on with the business of government, seeking to impose order on various irregular armed forces and revive the oil-based economy. Those efforts received a lift on Friday when the U.N. Security Council eased sanctions, including those on Libya's national oil company and central bank, and voted to establish a U.N. mission in the country. The latest foreign visitor was Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan, who hailed the fate of Gaddafi as an example to Turkey's neighbor Syria whose autocratic president has resorted to tanks and troops to try to crush popular unrest. Erdogan also called on the people of Sirte to give up the fight and make peace. Contact has not been possible with Gaddafi loyalists in Sirte, Bani Walid or in Sabha, deep in Libya's southern desert where several senior Gaddafi aides have been lately. Gaddafi, 69, remains at large and commands loyalty from at least hundreds of armed men, concentrated in areas from Sirte through Bani Walid and Sabha, creating a corridor in the vast empty spaces of the desert through which members of Gaddafi's family and senior aides have reached Algeria and Niger. Niger's justice minister said on Friday it would not send one of Gaddafi's sons, Saadi, back to Libya, saying he could not get a fair trial there and risked the death penalty. But Marou Amadou indicated that it would be different if Gaddafi, his son Saif al-Islam or intelligence chief Abdullah al-Senussi showed up. All three are wanted by the International Criminal Court for alleged crimes against humanity. "If that person was, however, wanted by an independent tribunal or a state that has universal competence to try them, then Niger will do its duty," Amadou told a news conference. (Additional reporting by William MacLean and Joseph Logan in Tripoli, Sherine El Madany in Ras Lanuf, Emma Farge in Benghazi, Barry Malone and Sylvia Westall in Tunis, Bate Felix in Niamey and Juliane von Reppert-Bismarck in Brussels; Writing by Alistair Lyon) World Libya Tweet this Link this Share this Digg this Email Reprints We welcome comments that advance the story through relevant opinion, anecdotes, links and data. If you see a comment that you believe is irrelevant or inappropriate, you can flag it to our editors by using the report abuse links. Views expressed in the comments do not represent those of Reuters. For more information on our comment policy, see http://blogs.reuters.com/fulldisclosure/2010/09/27/toward-a-more-thoughtful-conversation-on-stories/ Comments (3) steiger wrote: Cameron, Sarkozy and Obama are social elitists. None of the three has ever held an honest job. Two of the three were spoiled rich kids. None has served in the military. Yet they think they know what is best for their own countries which is fine, if the stupid voters want to elect that type of individual then so be it. But the problem is each is in charge of a powerful military so they can invade any small country they wish. Where does Col Lavoie think NATO has been bombing. It certainly is not out in the desert. NATO has been bombing government buildings and infrastructure at will with no resistance whatsoever. Cameron, Sarkozy, Obama, Col Lavie and the NATO commanders are all war criminals and should receive the proper justice. Sep 17, 2011 11:09am EDT -- Report as abuse derdutchman wrote: Your leader proclaimed “to the death.” Don’t blame NATO. Sep 17, 2011 11:25am EDT -- Report as abuse ContiUK wrote: Another Moussa Ibrahim’s “credible” account lol According to Mr. Ibrahim, who’s previous encarnation was Pinocchio, 6 billion people were killed by NATO’s “colonialist agression” together with Al Qaeda and mercanaries troops haha I wonder what his next job will be after he leaves prison, perhaps wonderland’s next spokesman ;) Sep 17, 2011 11:37am EDT -- Report as abuse See All Comments » Add Your Comment Social Stream (What's this?) 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