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Edition: U.S. Article Comments (12) Slideshow Video Libya U.S. warns of Libya "stalemate" as Misrata battle rages Senator McCain in Libya to meet rebels Morocco says working on political deal for Libya More sellers than buyers in Benghazi gold bazaar Analysis: Risks rise as West forced to expand Libya mission For Misrata ambulances, every run is life or death Libya rebels show off arms captured at border post Libyan ground forces degraded by up to 40 percent: U.S. Analysis: Risks rise as West forced to expand Libya mission Video: Battles continues in Misrata Follow Reuters Facebook Twitter RSS YouTube Read Texas governor calls for prayers for rain amid fires 21 Apr 2011 U.S. warns of Libya "stalemate" as Misrata battle rages | 10:51am EDT Samsung counter sues Apple over iPhone, iPad 5:19am EDT Samsung countersues Apple over iPhone, iPad 9:02am EDT British tourist saves toddler in four-story fall 21 Apr 2011 Discussed 98 Palin returns with feisty, anti-establishment speech 76 Texas governor calls for prayers for rain 49 Team to probe oil market fraud, manipulation: Obama Watched ローマ法王は日本のため祈る、世界各国で市民が弔問(字幕・13日) Mon, Mar 14 2011 VW unveils new sporty Beetle Mon, Apr 18 2011 Size matters at New York Auto Show Thu, Apr 21 2011 U.S. warns of Libya "stalemate" as Misrata battle rages Tweet Share this By Michael Georgy MISRATA, Libya (Reuters) - The top U.S. military officer said air strikes had hobbled Libyan forces but the conflict was moving into "stalemate" as Muammar Gaddafi's troops pressed on with their punishing siege of rebel... 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Credit: Reuters/Yannis Behrakis By Michael Georgy MISRATA, Libya | Fri Apr 22, 2011 10:51am EDT MISRATA, Libya (Reuters) - The top U.S. military officer said air strikes had hobbled Libyan forces but the conflict was moving into "stalemate" as Muammar Gaddafi's troops pressed on with their punishing siege of rebel Misrata. Morocco said it was seeking a political solution to the crisis, after Moroccan officials met representatives of Muammar Gaddafi and rebels this week. Rebels welcomed U.S. plans to deploy unmanned aircraft, typically operated remotely from the United States. But it emerged that bad weather had forced the first two drones sent to Libya to turn back. "It's certainly moving toward a stalemate," said Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the U.S. military's joint chiefs of staff, in Baghdad. "At the same time we've attrited somewhere between 30 and 40 percent of his main ground forces, his ground force capabilities. Those will continue to go away over time." In Misrata, the only rebel-held major city in western Libya, rebels wrested control of a downtown office building which had been a base for Gaddafi's snipers and other troops, after a furious two-week-long battle. Shattered masonry, wrecked tanks and the incinerated corpse of a government soldier lay near the former insurance offices on Friday amid buildings pockmarked by gunfire. "They shot anything that moved," one fighter said of the Gaddafi men driven out. Rebels said they had captured several other central buildings from government forces and the state of the battle did not appear to match claims by government officials in Tripoli to control 80 percent of Misrata. Rebel fighters are fighting a block-by-block war of attrition with an enemy sometimes only yards (meters) away. "Gaddafi's fighters taunt us. If they are in a nearby building they yell at us at night to scare us. They call us rats," one rebel said. Ambulance drivers on the rebel side accuse government forces of deliberately shooting at their vehicles. Government officials deny attacking civilians. FRUSTRATION Hundreds of fighters and civilians have died in Misrata during the siege. Rebel fighters voice frustration with an international military operation they see as too cautious. Food and medicine are running out and there are queues for petrol. Residents depend on generators for power and thousands of stranded foreign workers await rescue in the port area. General James Cartwright, vice chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, said the first two Predator drones were sent to Libya on Thursday but had to turn back because of bad weather. The United States planned to maintain two patrols of armed Predators above Libya at any given time, Cartwright said. The drones have proven a potent but controversial weapon in Pakistan and other areas where U.S. forces have no troops on the ground. They can fly without being noticed from the ground and hit targets with missiles with no risk to crew. However, they have killed many civilians by mistake in Pakistan. "There's no doubt that will help protect civilians and we welcome that step from the American administration," rebel spokesman Abdel Hafiz Ghoga said on Al Jazeera television. The Obama administration has been anxious not to spearhead NATO's Libya campaign. It has instead let British and French planes do the bombing and has not deployed low-flying ground attack aircraft, unique to U.S. forces, which military analysts say would be most effective against Gaddafi's troops. Analysts said the drones were a way of appeasing French and British calls for more U.S. help but were far from being a "silver bullet" to tilt the conflict against Gaddafi. Libyan state television said nine people had been killed overnight by NATO bombardment of the city of Sirte, Gaddafi's home town, including employees of the state water utility. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Gaddafi's forces were carrying out "vicious attacks" on Misrata and might have used cluster bombs against civilians. The United States, like Libya, has not joined a convention banning such weapons. Republican U.S. Senator John McCain went to the eastern rebel stronghold of Benghazi on Friday for talks with rebel leaders. He said they needed more help to overthrow Libyan Gaddafi and "get this thing over with. An official Moroccan source said Rabat was working for a solution which would "respond to the aspirations of the Libyan people and ensure a return of stability which is extremely important for the Mediterranean and sub-Saharan Africa." "MISSION CREEP" France, Libya and Britain plan to dispatch up to small teams to help rebels improve organization and communications. Tripoli denounced such moves and some commentators warned of "mission creep" after assurances by Western leaders that they would not put combat troops in Libya. Russia said the sending of advisers exceeded the U.N. Security Council mandate to protect civilians. Libya urged rebels on Thursday to sit down to peace talks but said it was arming and training civilians to confront any possible ground attack by NATO forces. In Tripoli, Ibrahim said the government welcomed ships coming to Misrata to pick up foreign workers. However, it would not accept international humanitarian aid arriving "with military cover." Coastguard and port officials said only two ships had docked at Tripoli's once-bustling port since mid-March and a NATO-enforced arms embargo was strangling trade and stopping fishermen from putting to sea. Fighting continued in the rebel-held east of the country. Gaddafi's forces fired shells toward the town of Ajdabiyah on Thursday, seeking to dislodge anti-government fighters from their main outpost before the rebel stronghold of Benghazi. Rebels showed off weapons captured from Muammar Gaddafi's fleeing soldiers on Friday, a day after seizing a remote border crossing near the Tunisian town of Dehiba. (Additional reporting by Phil Stewart in Baghdad; writing by Andrew Roche; editing by Angus MacSwan) World Libya Tweet this Share this Link this Digg this Email Reprints We welcome comments that advance the story directly or with relevant tangential information. We try to block comments that use offensive language, all capital letters or appear to be spam, and we review comments frequently to ensure they meet our standards. If you see a comment that you believe is irrelevant or inappropriate, you can flag it to our editors by using the report abuse links. Views expressed in the comments do not represent those of Reuters. Comments (12) LeRuscino wrote: “QUOTE” Translated by Professor Sam Hamod, Ph.D. Recollections of My Life: Col. Mu’ummar Qaddafi, The Leader of the Revolution. April 5, 2011. 　 In the name of Allah, the beneficent, the merciful… For 40 years, or was it longer, I can’t remember, I did all I could to give people houses, hospitals, schools, and when they were hungry, I gave them food. I even made Benghazi into farmland from the desert, I stood up to attacks from that cowboy Reagan, when he killed my adopted orphaned daughter, he was trying to kill me, instead he killed that poor innocent child. Then I helped my brothers and sisters from Africa with money for the African Union. I did all I could to help people understand the concept of real democracy, where people’s committees ran our country. But that was never enough, as some told me, even people who had 10 room homes, new suits and furniture, were never satisfied, as selfish as they were they wanted more. They told Americans and other visitors, that they needed “democracy” and “freedom” never realizing it was a cut throat system, where the biggest dog eats the rest, but they were enchanted with those words, never realizing that in America, there was no free medicine, no free hospitals, no free housing, no free education and no free food, except when people had to beg or go to long lines to get soup. No, no matter what I did, it was never enough for some, but for others, they knew I was the son of Gamal Abdel Nasser, the only true Arab and Muslim leader we’ve had since Salah-al-Deen, when he claimed the Suez Canal for his people, as I claimed Libya, for my people, it was his footsteps I tried to follow, to keep my people free from colonial domination – from thieves who would steal from us. Now, I am under attack by the biggest force in military history, my little African son, Obama wants to kill me, to take away the freedom of our country, to take away our free housing, our free medicine, our free education, our free food, and replace it with American style thievery, called “capitalism,” but all of us in the Third World know what that means, it means corporations run the countries, run the world, and the people suffer. So, there is no alternative for me, I must make my stand, and if Allah wishes, I shall die by following His path, the path that has made our country rich with farmland, with food and health, and even allowed us to help our African and Arab brothers and sisters to work here with us, in the Libyan Jamahiriya. I do not wish to die, but if it comes to that, to save this land, my people, all the thousands who are all my children, then so be it. Let this testament be my voice to the world, that I stood up to crusader attacks of NATO, stood up to cruelty, stood up to betrayal, stood up to the West and its colonialist ambitions, and that I stood with my African brothers, my true Arab and Muslim brothers, as a beacon of light. When others were building castles, I lived in a modest house, and in a tent. I never forgot my youth in Sirte, I did not spend our national treasury foolishly, and like Salah-al-Deen, our great Muslim leader, who rescued Jerusalem for Islam, I took little for myself… In the West, some have called me “mad”, “crazy”, but they know the truth yet continue to lie, they know that our land is independent and free, not in the colonial grip, that my vision, my path, is, and has been clear and for my people and that I will fight to my last breath to keep us free, may Allah almighty help us to remain faithful and free. 　 c: Col. Mu’ummar Qaddafi, 2011/05/04 Copyright Col. Mu’ummar Qaddafi, – Mathaba.Net “UN-QUOTE” Apr 22, 2011 5:02am EDT -- Report as abuse LeRuscino wrote: The pictures show lots of civilians that coincidentally happen to be armed to the teeth and firing indiscriminately! The media started this war – can they end it by now telling the truth? No chance! Apr 22, 2011 5:26am EDT -- Report as abuse skyeye wrote: Europe should not be in Libya. America should not be in Libya. Our leaders want kudos for their ‘brave’ strategy and humanitarian stance. We have a Christian culture – what have we to do with sons of Allah? Our leaders will be made to look weak and feeble by their own peoples and will they receive thanks from the rebels? … Oh, no. And the end of all this having spent billions of pounds we have not got and having killed thousands of Libyans, we will lose trade and lose good will with all the Arab nations. Siding with muslim rebels is a left wing crackpot strategy which is doomed to failure. The ‘peace’ talks Gadaffi wants should be encouraged and we should leave the people to work out their own settlements and policies – after all, the Arab nations are rich, well armed and can assist their own Islamic brothers to work out a settlement. 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