Coalition forces continue to target government forces on the ground for a second day, as Colonel Moammar Gadhafi vowed a "long war.""We promise you a long war," he said.
He called the international assault "simply a colonial crusader aggression that may ignite another large-scale crusader war."
Ghadhafi's air force has resumed bombing the town of Misrata. "Misrata is the only city in western Libya not under Gadhafi's control; he is trying hard to change its position," said al-Warfali, who told The Associated Press he was in touch with residents in the city. Gadhafi vowed to fight on. In a phone call to Libyan state television Sunday, he said he would not let up on Benghazi and said the government had opened up weapons depots to all Libyans, who were now armed with "automatic weapons, mortars and bombs." State television said Gadhafi's supporters were converging on airports as human shields.
The first night of strikes began with assaults by French warplanes, followed by a barrage of 112 cruise missiles fired by U.S. and British warships and submarines in the Mediterranean Sea targeting radar systems, communications centers and surface-to-air missile sites. A wave of bombings mainly from American aircraft — including B-2 stealth bombers and F-15 and F-16 fighter-bombers — then targeted Libyan ground forces and air defenses, the U.S. military said. One senior military official said the early judgment was that the attacks had been highly successful, while not fully eliminating the threat posed by Libyan air defenses
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