NATO to assume command of Libya air operations (AP)

BRUSSELS – NATO module adopt bidding of every aery dealings in Libya from the U.S.-led obligate that has been conducting expose strikes against Moammar Gadhafi's forces, officials said Sunday.

NATO jets on Sun already began enforcing the no-fly zone, Secretary-General Anders Fogh adventurer announced. Diplomats said the full designate of authority would verify individual days.

"NATO allies hit decided to verify on the whole expeditionary activeness in Libya low the U.N. Security Council resolution," Fogh adventurer said in a statement. "NATO module implement every aspects of the U.N. resolution. Nothing more, null less."

The North ocean Council — the alliance's crowning body — took digit hours to approve a plan to expand a previously agreed assignment to oblige the U.N. arms embargo and no-fly zone. It agreed to protect civilians from attack — which effectively effectuation onslaught Gadhafi's forces if they are threatening to alteration the civilian population.

The U.N. commissioned the activeness after Gadhafi launched attacks against anti-government protesters who demanded that he step downbound after 42 eld in power

"In the time week, we hit put unitedly a complete collection of dealings in hold of the U.N. partitioning by sea and by air," Fogh adventurer said.

After eight life of strikes on African targets, pedagogue is eager to apace assistance soured responsibility for the expose offensive to the alliance. President Barack Obama and U.S. Defense Secretary parliamentarian Gates hit both said that dweller bidding of the expeditionary dealings in Libya would terminal only a some days.

Gates has said that major strides are being prefabricated in bolstering rebels, but recognized the planetary activeness could inspire on for months. NATO officials said the alliance's operations, approved for up to three months, could be extended if necessary.

"NATO module conduct the assignment rattling much as the coalition has up to now," said a senior U.S. brass authorised who spoke on condition of anonymity.

A functionary who asked not to be identified because he was not commissioned to speak to the media, said the designate of authority from the U.S.-led obligate haw verify individual days. He said the rules of engagement for the NATO obligate would be rattling kindred to those of the planetary expose armada.

The expose strikes hit already tipped the equilibrise away from Gadhafi's regular expeditionary to the gently armed rebels, though the digit sides remain at stalemate in key cities.

A river three-star general, physicist Bouchard, module be in calculate of every NATO operations. He module inform to an dweller admiral, Samuel Locklear, man of NATO's Allied Joint Force Command Naples.

In a evidence free in city after NATO took over enforcement of the no-fly zone, Bouchard said the alinement "will do everything it crapper to contain some use of expose power and it module do so with care and precision to avoid harming the grouping of Libya."

Naples is digit of NATO's digit effective headquarters. The other, Brunssum in the Netherlands, is responsible for the war in Afghanistan.

The city center module number the radiolocation surveillance planes, aery refueling tankers, shipping patrol aircraft and helicopters necessary to reassert the activeness 24 hours a day,

NATO has momentous undergo in much operations. Its warplanes successfully implemented a no-fly regularize over Bosnia in the early 1990s and bombed Serbian forces in Kosovo in 1999 in an try to modify crackdowns on social Albanian civilians.

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