Al Jazeera reports:
NATO has promised "all necessary resources" to Libya's opposition in its campaign to topple Muammar Gaddafi but the military alliance struggled to agree on whether that included arming rebel fighters.
The pledge, made by Anders Fogh Rasmussen, NATO's secretary general, came during a two-day meeting in Berlin marked by disputes over how to resolve the Libyan conflict and the extent of the alliance's support for the rebels. … [D]ivisions evident since a March 29 conference on Libya in London, were still manifest at a meeting in Doha on Wednesday of the contact group on Libya, which includes Western and Arab states, the United Nations, the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation and the Arab League.
Wow. You could never have predicted that, could you? Meanwhile, a somewhat familiar prediction:
Rebels have warned of an impending "massacre" by troops loyal to Muammar Gaddafi if NATO does not intensify its attacks on government forces in and around Misurata, which has been besieged for weeks. Libyan government forces launched a heavy attack against the coastal city on Thursday, with dozens of Grad rockets, killing at least 23 people, a rebel spokesman said. Misurata, Libya's third-biggest city, is the only major rebel stronghold in the west of the country.
(Photo: A Libyan rebel fighter smokes a cigarette while guarding a staging area outside Ajdabiya on April 14, 2011. NATO allies sought to show a united front in the Libya campaign, insisting they all wanted to see the back of Moamer Kadhafi even as they remained divided over dropping more bombs. By Odd Andersen/AFP/Getty Images)
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