U.S. considers sending ground troops to Libya

The U.S. may consider sending troops into Libya to aid rebel forces, U.S. Army General Carter Ham has stated. Ham, who was the first commander of air strikes against Libya, has assessed that the international operation is largely stalemated now. U.S. considers sending ground troops to Libya He pointed out that it “was clear” that it would happen “when the U.S. handed over control of the operation in Libya to NATO”. NATO has denied that the Libyan conflict has stalemated, describing battles between the rebel forces and troops loyal to Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi as “fluid”. NATO operation in Libya Deputy Commander Rear Admiral Russell Harding has stated that enemy forces have been “moving back and forth” along the highway between the towns of Brega and Ajdabiya in the last 48 hours. NATO has announced today that the alliance’s planes had targeted rebels using tanks. Harding said that NATO did not have the information that the rebel forces had been using the tanks. At least four rebels died in the attack, but Harding said that NATO would not apologize for the deaths. Rebel Commander General Abdel-Fattah Younis said that four people, two fighters and two medics, had been killed, that 14 had been wounded and six had gone missing in the attack near Brega. He said that it had been a friendly fire and that “NATO made a mistake”, adding that the rebels had informed NATO that their T55 and T72 tanks were headed toward Brega. “We suffered a setback yesterday,” Younis said and pointed out that the rebel forces had 400 tanks that they would get more. (Beta)

U.S. considers sending ground troops to Libya

He pointed out that it “was clear” that it would happen “when the U.S. handed over control of the operation in Libya to NATO”.

NATO has denied that the Libyan conflict has stalemated, describing battles between the rebel forces and troops loyal to Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi as “fluid”.

NATO operation in Libya Deputy Commander Rear Admiral Russell Harding has stated that enemy forces have been “moving back and forth” along the highway between the towns of Brega and Ajdabiya in the last 48 hours.

NATO has announced today that the alliance’s planes had targeted rebels using tanks. Harding said that NATO did not have the information that the rebel forces had been using the tanks.

At least four rebels died in the attack, but Harding said that NATO would not apologize for the deaths.

Rebel Commander General Abdel-Fattah Younis said that four people, two fighters and two medics, had been killed, that 14 had been wounded and six had gone missing in the attack near Brega.

He said that it had been a friendly fire and that “NATO made a mistake”, adding that the rebels had informed NATO that their T55 and T72 tanks were headed toward Brega.

“We suffered a setback yesterday,” Younis said and pointed out that the rebel forces had 400 tanks that they would get more.