Tuesday, March 01, 2011Libyan Rebels, Invoking U.N., May Ask West for Airstrikes ...
In a sign of mounting frustration among rebel leaders at Colonel Muammar el-Qaddafi's diminished but unyielding grip on power, the revolutionary council in Libya is debating whether to ask for Western airstrikes on some of the regime's most important military assets under a United Nations banner, according to four people with knowledge of the council's deliberations.
By invoking the United Nations, the council, made up lawyers, academics, judges and other prominent figures, is seeking to draw a distinction between the airstrikes and foreign intervention, which the rebels say they emphatically oppose.
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