The deaths underlined the challenge, the Western allies and the rebels in default priority that reduce air attacks the forces of Colonel Muammar el-Gaddafi as the two sides mix in the combat zone along the front.
Perhaps in response to the Western air strikes, Gaddafi forces increasingly similar crashes which in combat in devices are what the rebels use, especially pickup trucks with machine guns or rockets mounted. The move makes it difficult even the fighters to distinguish a group from the other at the first glance.
"It is a mistake," said Abdul Hafidh Ghoga, the rebel main speaker. "Has nothing changed."
A rebel fighter was wounded in the airstrike, colleagues said rebels had thrown in the air moments before the attack.
"I knows why not," the rebel, Ali Abdullah Abubaker, said later from a hospital in Benghazi. "Maybe he had."
Later, Mr Abubaker is one of the aircraft seconds. "I saw something white," he said. "There was no sound."
His white pickup truck was set on fire, and he said that three of the four other men in the car were killed. Mr Abubaker, a college student studying political science, had burns on his face and was in his car, in the explosion ignited by balls hit.
A NATO spokesman in Brussels said the Alliance was reported and investigated.
"NATO reports of civilian casualties very seriously," said the spokesman. "But details are difficult to verify because we have no reliable sources on the ground for us."
The spokesman, who identified according to NATO policy, be added, "If someone is thrown when one of our aircraft, they have the right to defend themselves."
NATO said that it had conducted operations 148 airstrike in the last 24 hours.
The strike occurred after dark on Friday as rebels retake continued their efforts to Brega. The Gaddafi had to beat forward observers in artillery the desert outside of the city overlooking the street, enabling the crews superior in Brega, the rebel forces, as they tried to approach positioned.
A group of about four rebel trucks entered a no. Mans had land the close fight between the lines of the two websites, where she mixed with similar truck of militia Qadhafi. Several Allied strikes at the front were heard at 8:30 am.
Mr Abubaker said that the rebels had told me to search the area.
The men stopped for prayers to a section of road between Ajdabiya and Brega. Few seconds before the bombing, rebels drive a Mitsubishi truck with a machine gun mounted on the back retired in close to the Group and one - a man, Mr Abubaker knew - started the rebels throw the weapon into the air.
A rebel ambulance driver who arrived at the scene said about an hour later, he found only the blackened remains of the four vehicles and eight or nine are so badly burned and mangled by the explosion, that he could not determine the exact number.
"I saw the fire, and the body, eight or nine bodies," said the driver, Ahmed al-Ginashi. "they were completely burnt."
In the Hospital of Benghazi's said Brahim Fahim al-Oraybey, a 19-year-old rebel fighters, he was wounded in the explosion. His right leg was amputated below the knee, and he was burned hard shoulders and hands over his face, back.
He said, there were six vehicles, including an ambulance, to him in a convoy when the explosion struck. He was in a white pickup truck with a machine gun mounted on the back favorite combat configuration the rebels as well as Colonel Qadhafi forces riding. He said he saw a local shepherd who lost both arms in the explosion, but his fate was unclear.
Speculated to the scene of the bombing rebel fighters that Colonel Qadhafi infiltrated forces the rebel lines and fired on the aircraft had, or that celebrates rebels shoot that allies had drawn to fire weapons into the air.
Kareem Fahim reported from Benghazi and C. j. Chivers of Brega, Libya. David D. Kirkpatrick contributed reporting from Tripoli.
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