Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi is shuttling between Tripoli’s hospitals to elude nighttime raids by NATO jets

Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi is shuttling between Tripoli’s hospitals to elude nighttime raids by NATO jets, a European government official said.
Qaddafi is moving between the hospitals because he knows North Atlantic Treaty Organization aircraft won’t bomb them, the official said, citing intelligence on the ground. He declined to be named because the information is not in the public domain.
Senior commanders in Qaddafi’s forces have also stopped using mobile phones because of concerns that their conversations are being intercepted by French, British and U.S. intelligence, limiting the regime’s top ranks from communicating effectively, the official said. The intelligence has been gleaned over the past week, he said.
Allied forces have intensified their attacks on the Qaddafi regime this week, and President Barack Obama and U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron vowed yesterday to step up the pressure on him. NATO said May 20 its increased air campaign in support of anti-Qaddafi rebels has “effectively” pushed the Libyan leader into hiding. British ministers have given approval in principle to deploy Apache attack helicopters, a U.K. official said today.