It is currently Ramadan. This Islamic festival requires Muslims to pray 7 times a day for 30 days and deprive themselves of food during daylight hours during the same period in order to allow them to reflect on the year that has passed and prepare for the year to come.
In Libya this means that people aren't eating between roughly 04:00 and 23:00 local. Add to that daytime temperatures of between 40c and 50c and it's no way to fight a war. So Libyan government forces and the rebels have pretty much stopped fighting each other as they observe an unofficial and largely unspoken ceasefire.
NATO however are not observing that ceasefire and continue to bomb ground targets. On Friday (5/8/11) NATO claimed that one of these bomb attacks killed Muammer Qaddafi's eldest son Khamis al-Qaddafi who is also the military commander of the Libyan army's 32nd Armoured Brigade. This is actually the second time that NATO have tried to encourage the rebels to fight by claiming to have killed Khamis al-Qaddafi so you'll excuse me if I don't exactly rush to believe them.
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