Libyan interim government forces licked their wounds on Saturday after a failed assault on the town of Bani Walid as a spokesman for former dictator Muammar Gadhafi 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 Gadhafi was still in Libya, leading the "resistance" against his foes. He furhter said that NATO air strikes on Sirte, Gadhafi's birthplace, had hit a residential building and a hotel, killing 354 people.