NATO admitted responsibility for air raid which killed some civilians on Sunday, suggesting "a weapons systems failure" may have led to the incident.

NATO admitted responsibility for air raid which killed some civilians in Tripoli on Sunday, suggesting "a weapons systems failure" may have led to the incident.

The alliance claimed the intended target was a missile site, but "it appears that one weapon" did not hit it.
 Libyan officials said that the raid killed nine civilians including two babies.
"NATO regrets the loss of innocent civilian lives and takes great care in conducting strikes against a regime determined to use violence against its own citizens”, the commander of operation Unified Protector, Lt Gen Charles Bouchard, said on Sunday evening.

"Although we are still determining the specifics of this event, indications are that a weapons system failure may have caused this incident."

Libyan officials added that Sunday’s attack, which took place shortly after midnight in one of the capital's poorer neighborhoods, had also injured 18 people.
The officials denied the incident, with Deputy Foreign Minister Khaled Kaim said the incident represented a "deliberate targeting of civilian houses".

"Basically, this is another night of murder, terror and horror in Tripoli caused by NATO”, a government spokesman, Moussa Ibrahim, said at a local hospital were reporters were taken to and shown bodies of killed people.

NATO military campaign began last March in response to embattled leader Muammar Gaddafi's violent response to protests.
The intervention was mandated by the UN, and led by France, Britain and the US until the end of March, when NATO took over.

Having initially been given 90 days - which would have run out on 27 June - the mission has been extended for a further 90 days.

OPPOSITION FINANCES
On the other hand, opposition leaders said their administration had run out of money as donors' pledges had not materialized.

They told a news conference in the eastern city of Benghazi that they were still waiting for funds that should have been deposited by last week.
On Sunday, senior officials from the opposition Transitional National Council (TNC) issued an urgent plea for foreign financial aid.

They said that despite having won promises of assistance from their Western and Arab supporters, they have yet to receive any money.
They believe they need more than $3bn (£1.9bn) to cover salaries and other needs in the next six months.