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Teacher: Now, understand the problem? Solve this instance: (CNN) -- Forces loyal to embattled Libyan strongman Moammar Gadhafi launched a new attack on the rebel-held city of Misrata on Wednesday, with anti-government forces reporting intense shelling from three sides of the city. 
  
 Thousands of government troops attacked around 6 a.m. (11 p.m. Tuesday ET), with 13 rebels reported dead by evening. Mohamed Mokhtar, a rebel fighter wounded in Wednesday's fighting, accused government troops of infiltrating rebel lines in cars bearing rebel flags. 
  
 Dr. Khaled Abu Falgha, a spokesman for Misrata's Hekma hospital, said it was the bloodiest day in a week in the besieged city. More than 1,000 people are believed to have been killed since the fighting began there in February, including 686 registered residents of the city, he said. 
  
 Rebel fighters returning from the front lines reported that their defenses were holding up under the onslaught, however. 
  
 The assault followed a day of intense bombardment of Libya's capital by the NATO alliance, which intervened in the conflict in March under a U.N. mandate to protect civilians as Gadhafi tried to crush the revolt against him. Libya's government said 60 missiles struck the capital city, killing at least 31 people, including a number of civilians, and wounding dozens more. 
  
 NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen reiterated Wednesday that the alliance is doing all it can to avoid civilian casualties. But he told reporters from allied headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, that NATO could continue the airstrikes "for as long as it takes to bring this crisis to an early conclusion." 
  
 Rasmussen said NATO bombing has saved lives in Libya, and that the alliance has the resources to extend its military mission for another 90 days past the end of June. 
  
 It is time to start planning for what to do after Gadhafi's departure "because Gadhafi's reign of terror is coming to an end," he said. 
  
 Pressed by reporters on why airstrikes would be able to dislodge Gadhafi when "the history of the last 30 years" shows that air attacks alone do not win wars, Rasmussen offered no clear answer, saying only, "We have no intentions to put troops on the ground." 
  
 For his part, even as NATO airstrikes bombarded his Tripoli compound, Gadhafi vowed Tuesday that "we will not surrender." 
  
 "I am now speaking as planes and bombs fall around me," Gadhafi said in a live audio broadcast on state television. "But my soul is in God's hand. We will not think about death or life. We will think about the call of duty." 
  
 The Gadhafi compound was under "intensive continuous bombardment," according to state TV, which reported buildings and infrastructure were destroyed. But government spokesman Musa Ibrahim said the allied campaign "is failing miserably." 
  
 "No one has the right to shape Libya's future except for Libyans," he said. 
  
 Ibrahim said Tuesday's morning blasts hit the popular guard compound and the revolution compound, which are military barracks near Gadhafi's Bab al-Aziziya compound. The spokesman said attacks Tuesday and Wednesday hit state television buildings, killing two people and wounding 16. 
  
 NATO disputed the account. 
  
 "We did not target or hit the Libyan broadcast facilities. What we did target was the military intelligence headquarters in downtown Tripoli," the alliance said. "The story coming from Libyan officials that we targeted and hit the state broadcaster's building is bogus." 
  
 CNN's Amir Ahmed, Richard Allen Greene, Raja Razek, Dan Rivers and Jonathan Wald contributed to this report. ||||| Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, increasingly cornered under a stunning upturn in NATO airstrikes, lashed back with renewed shelling on the outskirts of the western city of Misrata, killing 10 rebel fighters. 
  
 A wounded rebel fighter is brought into the hospital in Misrata, Libya Wednesday, June 8, 2011. Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, increasingly cornered under a stunning upturn in NATO airstrikes, lashed... (Associated Press) 
  
 A wounded rebel fighter is brought into the hospital in Misrata, Libya Wednesday, June 8, 2011. Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, increasingly cornered under a stunning upturn in NATO airstrikes, lashed... (Associated Press) 
  
 A wounded rebel fighter is brought into the hospital in Misrata, Libya Wednesday, June 8, 2011. Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, increasingly cornered under a stunning upturn in NATO airstrikes, lashed... (Associated Press) 
  
 A Libyan citizen stands next to sticker mocking Moammar Gadhafi as he waits to cross to Egypt in Musaed, Libya, Wednesday, June 8, 2011. NATO's top official said Wednesday the alliance won't put troops... (Associated Press) 
  
 In this photo taken on a organized government tour smoke rises from debris as foreign journalists take photographs next to a damaged truck at the Hadba agricultural area, outside Tripoli, Libya, on Wednesday,... (Associated Press) 
  
 A wounded man is brought into the hospital in Misrata, Libya, Wednesday June 8, 2011. Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, increasingly cornered under a stunning upturn in NATO airstrikes, lashed back with... (Associated Press) 
  
 U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates, front right, speaks with NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, front left, during a group photo of NATO defense ministers at NATO headquarters in Brussels... (Associated Press) 
  
 The international alliance said it remained determined to keep pounding Gadhafi forces from the air, but would play no military role in the transition to democratic rule in the oil-rich North African country once the erratic leader's 42-year rule has ended. 
  
 In Brussels, NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said Gadhafi's days in power were clearly numbered, making it imperative for the international community, the United Nations in particular, to gear up to help Libyans establish a new form of government. 
  
 "For Gadhafi, it is no longer a question of if he goes but when he goes," Fogh Rasmussen said at a meeting of the defense ministers from the 28 members of the North Atlantic military alliance. 
  
 "We do not see a lead role for NATO in Libya once this crisis is over," he said. "We see the United Nations playing a lead role in the post-Gadhafi, post-conflict scenario." 
  
 The alliance said it was acting in the skies over Libya purely in accordance with the U.N. mandate to protect the Libyan people from Gadhafi. The resolution did not include any involvement in post-conflict peacekeeping. 
  
 French Defense Minister Gerard Longuet said: "NATO has a military vocation and rebuilding Libya is a civilian issue. So really simply, in order to rebuild Libya, if the Libyan people ask for it, because it is first of all an issue for the Libyan people, it is the job for civilian international institutions _ and not military _ to bring a response" 
  
 The Libyan rebels, too, have made it clear they have no appetite to see alliance ground forces in the country once the conflict is finished. 
  
 But they remain grateful for NATO intervention and applaud the stepped-up alliance bombing campaign, a record 66 strike sorties over Tripoli and environs on Tuesday. 
  
 "We've always felt that relentless, continuous strikes would hasten the departure of (Gadhafi) or at least the circle around him," said rebel spokesman Jalal el-Gallal in Benghazi, the de facto rebel capital. "We're very glad that (NATO) is carrying out the actions, and it is a matter of time." 
  
 But NATO's campaign has strained the alliance, which was evident Wednesday when U.S. officials said Defense Secretary Robert Gates pointedly prodded five allied nations to share more of the burden of the NATO-led mission in Libya. None committed to do more. 
  
 The officials said Gates used his final NATO meeting before retirement to press Germany and Poland to join the military intervention, and Spain, Turkey and the Netherlands to contribute to strike missions against ground targets. 
  
 The officials spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the private meeting of the alliance's defense ministers. 
  
 Misrata, a port city and commercial center in western Libya, has seen some of the fiercest fighting in the more than 4-month-old uprising, which has spiraled into a civil war that has divided Libyan into zones controlled by Moammar Gadhafi and others by rebels. 
  
 Dr. Khalid Abufalgha of Misrata's central Hikma hospital said government forces attacked the city from three sides _ the east, south and west _ on Wednesday but rebel fighters kept them out. Gadhafi's forces then shelled the city's outlying districts from afar, killing 10 and wounding 24, he said. 
  
 All the dead were fighters manning rebel checkpoints outside the city, he said. Most were killed in the village of Tawargha, more than 13 miles (20 kilometers) southeast of Misrata. 
  
 The daily death toll is the highest in Libya's third largest city since rebel fighters pushed government forces to the outskirts weeks ago. Misrata remains under siege, able to get food and other supplies only through its seaport. 
  
 Misrata is the only large rebel-held city in western Libya. The rebels also control most of eastern Libya as well as a string of towns in the western Nafusa mountain range. 
  
 NATO airstrikes thundered down on the Libyan capital on Wednesday, at least four during the day after five before dawn. Another strike hit Tripoli late in the evening. 
  
 It was not immediately clear what was targeted. However, NATO strikes appear to be repeatedly pounding the same set of targets: the sprawling Gadhafi compound in central Tripoli, a series of government buildings and radar installations and military bases on the outskirts of the capital. 
  
 Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, said NATO remained determined to see the end of Gadhafi's rule. During a visit to Cairo, he reminded reporters of NATO's decision over the weekend to extend the Libyan mission for 90 days, into late September. 
  
 "I think it's very clear that NATO is very committed to this mission and committed to providing the kind of protection for the Libyan people that it has when it took the mission on and to focusing on a way to see Gadhafi out the door," he said. 
  
 He added that President Barack Obama "has been very clear and remains very clear that this will not involve boots on the ground from the United States perspective." 
  
 The pummeling NATO strikes of Tuesday and Wednesday made good on alliance warnings in recent days that attacks would be increasing the scope and intensity. British and French attack helicopters struck for the first time inside Libya over the weekend. 
  
 Wing Commander Mike Bracken at NATO's Libya operations headquarters in Naples told The Associated Press there has been "increased tempo over recent days over Tripoli" as the alliance seeks to further weaken Gadhafi's military. 
  
 But he stressed that "Gadhafi as an individual has not been a target and won't be a target." 
  
 Some 6,850 people, nearly all of them Libyans, have streamed across the border from Libya to Tunisia since Monday to flee the NATO raids as well as fighting between the rebels and government forces, according to the Tunisian Defense Ministry. 
  
 In Benghazi, Spanish Foreign Minister Trinidad Jimenez became the latest European official to visit and bolster the opposition forces. 
  
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 Corder contributed from Brussels. Associated Press writers Hadeel Al-Shalchi in Benghazi, Libya, and Ben Hubbard and Steven R. Hurst in Cairo contributed reporting. ||||| MISRATA, Libya–Forces loyal to Colonel Moammar Gadhafi launched multiple attacks close to the battle-scarred town of Misrata on Wednesday during a rare lull in the allied bombing campaign, sparking heavy fighting that doctors said killed at least 17 rebels. 
  
 The clashes saw some rebels from the coastal town of Zlitin in Western Libya join fighters in neighboring Misrata, signaling an expansion in opposition to Col. Gadhafi's regime in a part of the country still largely under his control. 
  
 Col. Gadhafi's forces took advantage of an easing in the bombing campaign by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, after 24 hours of ... |||||
Student:
Forces loyal to increasingly cornered Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi launched a major offensive against the rebel-held city of Misrata yesterday. Thousands of troops attacked the city and it was shelled from three sides, a rebel leader tells CNN. Rebel fighters say their defenses held up under the onslaught, but at least 17 rebels were killed in the heaviest fighting the besieged city has seen in more than a week. Pro-regime fighters have been attacking in vehicles disguised to look like rebel ones, with the letter "N" painted on top to fool NATO aircraft overhead, witnesses tell the Wall Street Journal. NATO plans to continue pounding Gadhafi's forces from the air but it will play no part in the transition to democratic rule after the leader is ousted, leaving that role to the United Nations, notes AP. "For Gadhafi, it is no longer a question of if he goes but when he goes," NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen told reporters. He did not offer a clear answer when asked why he thought airstrikes would dislodge the leader, when "the history of the last 30 years" has shown that airstrikes alone don't win wars.