Fox News: It's not nice to taunt the Russian Bear!!

Hours after NATO airstrikes pounded Muammar al-Qaddafi's compound again before dawn Thursday, Russia's envoy to Libya turned up at a bombing site while on a visit to Tripoli for talks on ending the "civil war". Italy's foreign minister, meanwhile, said his government was calling together tribal leaders from all parts of Libya for a meeting to promote reconciliation. Franco Frattini said Thursday up to 300 people representing all of Libya's regions will attend the meeting, though he did not give a date. The ANSA news agency said the meeting might take place next week. One of Qaddafi's sons told an Italian newspaper that his father would NOT seek exile outside Libya but that elections under international supervision could offer a way out. A vote could be organized within 3 months! The son, Saif al-Islam, told Corriere della Sera that Qaddafi would step aside if he lost, which the son said was unlikely. He acknowledged however that "my father's regime as it developed since 1969 is dead". The son said he envisions a federal state with strong local autonomy and a weak central government in Tripoli. In Moscow, the ITAR-Tass news agency said envoy Mikhail Margelov visited the Libyan rebel stronghold of Benghazi and said that Qaddafi has lost his legitimacy, however, he also said that NATO airstrikes are NOT a solution to Libya's violent stalemate.