One of the insurgents, who identified himself as Abu Bakr Misrata, told Al Jazeera television that the uprising began early Sunday morning from the heart of the city, before the next arrival of rebel forces. The rebel representative said that the first fighting between the insurgents and the brigades loyal to the regime have already taken place in several neighborhoods. There have been exchanges of fire from small arms and rocket-propelled grenades throughout the night and into the early hours of the morning, said. He said that armed clashes had taken place especially in the districts of Tadjoura and Suk Yuma. For its part, the spokesman for the Alliance of 17 February, Mohamed Abderaman, argued that there was fighting in seven different districts and that the rebels had managed to take the Matica air base. Al Jazeera, citing rebel sources, reported that the rebels had captured alive 35 members of the forces of the regime during this evening before taking total control of Tajura, on the eastern outskirts of the capital.

Chain Katari also reported that, after the first fighting between loyalist forces and rebels, arrived air strikes from the aircraft of NATO against certain white in Tripoli, but not said what it was. NATO the NATO bombing this Sunday bombed the headquarters of the Libyan leader, Muammar al-Gaddafi, in Bab the Aziziyah, in Tripoli, and the airport of Maitika, also in the capital, the Al Jazeera television channel reported. Broadcaster Katari also drew detention in Colonel Maitika to the Jituni, considered one of the main military charges linked to Qadhafi, and eight of his colleagues. Rebel sources said also Al Jazeera who have arrived to take control of the historic city of Tarhuna, 60 kilometres south of Tripoli. Source of the news: NATO bombs the Qaddafi barracks while the rebels come near the fall of Libyan leader