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| NATO to discuss no-fly zone |
| Libya unrest: NATO to discuss no-fly zone
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| UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
, 10-March-2011
6:58:17 AM |
| President Barack Obama's top national security aides emerged from private talks Wednesday with a growing sense that imposing a no-fly zone over Libya would have a "limited impact" on halting the kind of violence raging in the North African nation, senior administration officials said.
That position, sure to shape the international debate about potential military intervention in Libya, came as Obama's principal security aides reviewed potential recommendations for the president during a White House Situation Room meeting.
The officials underscored that the creation of a no-fly zone over Libyan airspace was not off the table from the U.S. perspective if the facts on the ground change, chiefly Moammar Gaddafi's use of air power to attack the rebels threatening his grip on power.
The administration maintains that planning for such intervention should continue, particularly at a pivotal NATO meeting in Brussels of defence chiefs on Thursday, and that the no-fly zone also remains in consideration as a way to increase pressure on Gaddafi
Yet for now, the no-fly zone option is not seen as having high impact in ending the violence, said the officials, who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the private strategy discussions.
The officials familiar with the meeting would not elaborate.
But other officials have noted that the no-fly zone tactic may be ineffective in part because Gaddafi appears to be using his planes sparingly in his crackdown on rebels. Military experts say the use of jets by Gaddafi loyalists poses less of a threat than the deployment of attack helicopters, which can get around flight prohibitions because they are harder to detect.
Even before Wednesday's talks, the Obama administration has had little enthusiasm for military intervention in Libya or for the no-fly zone in particular. Defence Secretary Robert
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