US and European militaries blasted Moammar Gadhafi's forces with airstrikes and over 100 cruise missiles early on Sunday, hitting air defences and at least two major air bases. In Benghazi, the rebel capital and first city to fall to the uprising that began on February 15, people said the strikes happened just in time. Libyan government tanks and troops on Saturday had reached the edges of the city in eastern Libya in fierce fighting that killed more than 120 people, according to a member of the rebel health committee in Benghazi.