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Edition: U.S. Article Comments (0) Slideshow Video Full Focus Editor's choice A selection of our top photos from the past 24 hours. Full Article Follow Reuters Rebels cheer cracks in Gaddafi rule Tweet Share this By Maria Golovnina TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Rebels cheered the defection of a Libyan minister as a sign that Muammar Gaddafi's rule was crumbling, but U.S. officials warned he was far from beaten and made clear they feared entanglement in another painful... Email Print Related News Libya top oil official says still in office Thu, Mar 31 2011 Senior Gaddafi envoy in Britain for talks: report Thu, Mar 31 2011 More than 400 rebel supporters missing in east Libya 1:30am EDT Military no cure for Libya crisis: German minister 3:40am EDT Analysis & Opinion Libya and selective US intervention Reuters/Ipsos poll: Obama seen as cautious commander-in-chief Related Topics World » Libya » Related Video Forces clash over Libyan oil town Thu, Mar 31 2011 Protesters call for coalition help. Belgium's first Libyan bombing mission 1 / 30 Rebels fire rockets as they return fire towards forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi near Brega in eastern Libya, March 31, 2011. Credit: Reuters/Finbarr O'Reilly By Maria Golovnina TRIPOLI | Fri Apr 1, 2011 3:40am EDT TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Rebels cheered the defection of a Libyan minister as a sign that Muammar Gaddafi's rule was crumbling, but U.S. officials warned he was far from beaten and made clear they feared entanglement in another painful war. After former Libyan foreign minister Moussa Koussa arrived in Britain, London urged others around Gaddafi to follow suit. "Gaddafi must be asking himself who will be the next to abandon him," Foreign Secretary William Hague said. Soon afterwards Ali Abdussalam Treki declined to take up his appointment by Gaddafi as U.N. ambassador, condemning the "spilling of blood" in Libya. But reports of defections of more senior Gaddafi aides remained unconfirmed. Asked about an Al Jazeera TV report that he was one of several who had fled to Tunisia, top oil official Shokri Ghanem told Reuters by phone late on Thursday: "This is not true, I am in my office and I will be on TV in a few minutes." Koussa's defection however raised the spirits of rebel fighters who were put to headlong retreat in a counter-attack by Gaddafi forces this week. "We are beginning to see the Gaddafi regime crumble," rebel spokesman Mustafa Gheriani said in the eastern town of Benghazi. However, despite almost two weeks of Western air strikes, Gaddafi's troops have used superior arms and tactics to push back rebels trying to edge westward along the coast from their eastern stronghold of Benghazi toward the capital Tripoli. News that U.S. President Barack Obama had authorized covert operations in Libya raised the prospect of wider support for the rebels. But Obama's order is likely to alarm countries already concerned that air strikes on infrastructure and troops by the United States, Britain and France go beyond a U.N. resolution with the stated aim only of protecting civilians. U.S. government sources told Reuters U.S. intelligence operatives were on the ground in Libya before Obama signed the order, to contact opponents of Gaddafi and assess their capabilities. There has been no CIA comment. "MISSION CREEP" "I can't speak to any CIA activities but I will tell you that the president has been quite clear that in terms of the United States military there will be no boots on the ground," U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said. "I am preoccupied with avoiding mission creep and avoiding having an open-ended, very large-scale American commitment," he later told the Senate Armed Services Committee. "We know about Afghanistan; we know about Iraq." 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