TRIPOLI (Reuters) - NATO has sunk eight Libyan warships and intercepted a fuel tanker it believed was heading for the military, the alliance said on Friday, in a marked escalation of a Western-led bombing campaign.
The Western alliance, working under a U.N. mandate to protect civilians from government forces, says military and political pressure is weakening Muammar Gaddafi's hold on power and should eventually dislodge him.
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