NATO kill 85 civilians in Libya

NATO kill 85 civilians

Libyan state TV has broadcast what it said was footage of Colonel Gaddafi's son Khamis visiting people wounded in an air attack. Earlier rebels claimed he had been killed in a NATO air strike last week.
Libyan TV said the footage was recorded on Tuesday. Khamis al-Gaddafi is shown visiting a hospital chatting with people wounded in an air strike on farmhouses near the town of Zlitan, the comment said. It is the first visual evidence of Khamis being alive after the claims of his death.

Tripoli says 85 civilians from 12 families, including 33 children and 32 women, were killed on Monday night by NATO forces near Zlitan. NATO denied the allegations and said all the targets they bombed were military.

The rebels earlier said that Khamis, who commands elite loyalist troops, had been killed in a NATO strike. The government denied the report. Khamis was also wrongly reported dead in March.

Meanwhile, the head of Libya's rebel National Transitional Council, Mustafa Abdel Jalil, has sacked the entire executive committee which functions as a cabinet. It followed the assassination of Abdel Fattah Younes, the former interior minister, who commanded the rebel forces. Source
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400 dead fish found floating in Mill Run

More than 400 fish have died this week in the downtown-Meadville waters of Mill Run. That’s the bad news — and, in one way, it’s the good news, too.

Officials at Meadville’s Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Resources office are seeking the public’s help in solving the mystery. Ironically, their large, four-story office building is also downtown, at the corner or Market and Chestnut streets, and it sits quite near to a visible stretch of the stream that feeds into French Creek about a quarter-mile farther downstream.

Mill Run originates east of town, near Tamarack Lake, and travels through three miles of city terrain, most of it unseen as it meanders beneath downtown streets.

A DEP employee leaving the building on Tuesday noticed some of the dead fish and saw that the slowly-flowing water had a strange blue-green color at that spot.

Something entered the creek, contaminating the waters, officials report, but they don’t know exactly what or where. So much of the creek is underground that the entry point will be difficult to find.

DEP staffers have done some preliminary investigation, however, and a 1,000-foot stretch between the new Walgreens drug store (at Liberty and North streets) and Meadville Public Library (at North and North Main), seem to be strong possibilities for the contamination’s point of origin.

Some people have reported smelling an odor that could be an indicator of the trouble, but DEP officials have not detected it themselves.

It is not yet known what substance caused the water’s blue-green color.

The 400 fish represent various species, and some of the fish were somewhat surprising to DEP officials. “We were happy to see the diversity of the fish we have found so far. It says good things about Mill Run. Many of the ones we found need to live in extremely clean environments,” said Freda Tarbell, DEP community relations coordinator.

The find indicates that “Mill Run contains a good, healthy aquatic community,” she said, with waters that are generally very clean. In fact, a species of sculpins and at least three species of darters that were found all require extremely clean environments to survive.

Anyone with information about the contamination problem is asked to call 332-6816.