French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe: 'Risk of collateral damage on the civilian population of Misurata obviously hampered operations.' Photo: Ian Langsdon/EPAMuammar Gaddafi's forces use civilians as human shields, to NATO air attacks slide, said France after rebels the Western-led coalition accused their attacking of Misratah continue to stand by government troops.
The French Foreign Minister, Alain Juppe, conceded, that the position of the rebel held town - under shelling and sniper fire from the army was daily - unbearable but said it was a little more that could be done immediately.
"We have formally requested, there will be no collateral damage for the civilian population," he told Radio France info. "This makes more difficult operations course."
The head of the French armed forces gave a similar response to complaints by rebels, that the pace of air strikes has waned since the NATO for the control of Libyan operations from the United States, France and the United Kingdom on 31 March.
"I would like to purchase from Kagi, things accelerated, but as you know, protection means not somewhere fire from civilians in the vicinity of them," said Admiral Edouard Guillaud radio Europe 1. "This is exactly the problem."
He said, NATO was operations at Misratah, concentration in the rebel of port area, keep and at the same time try to prevent the transit of new weapons on Gaddafi's power base in Tripoli.
The comments followed a scathing rebuke for the Alliance of General Abdel Fatah Younis, leader of the ailing rebel forces. He said: "NATO blesses us every now and then with here and as a bombing, and that's that let people of Misratah die every day." "NATO has disappointed us."
Younis, formerly Gaddafi's Interior Minister, had said a significant slowdown of operations since NATO took over: "The NATO response is very slow." An official gets another and then by the official on the head of NATO and by the head of NATO in the field commander. "It takes eight hours."
He denied the NATO argument to limit the bombing of Misurata: "Nato says Gaddafi's forces are hiding among the civilian population." But we tell them that there are no civilians in the areas where the Gaddafi forces, left positioned. We call on them civil property is to destroy the snipers and armed gangs. "
After a first rapid to and fro that quickly provided for the rebels pushed back further, the battle for control of the country in a near stalemate between Tripoli and the rebels based in the eastern city of Benghazi has stuck werdeneine of NATO a no-fly zone and attacks on Gaddafi's forces managed implementation.
Resupplied Government saw the recent fighting, according to rebels, forces push to the East of the oil port of Brega.
Pick-up trucks loaded with machine guns and rocket launchers while several families fled the fighting in cars loaded with their belongings they passed in the opposite direction West of Ajdabiyah headed.
Hossam Ahmed, a defector from Gaddafi's army, said the front line was 25-37 (40-60 miles) West of Ajdabiyah, say that retreat "was not full withdrawal", it is back and forth.
Ajdabiyah, gateway to Benghazi, is about 80 km east of Brega.
How other rebels at the western gate of Ajdabiyah Ahmed expressed frustration about the lack of NATO actions. "There were no air strikes." "We hear the sound but it not a bomb", he told Reuters.
Another rebel, Khaled al Obeidi said: "what did NATO, which bombed the NATO?"
So far, almost one-third of the Gaddafi's said air strikes military capacity away have, Brigadier General Mark van uhm, senior NATO staff officer, in Brussels. He also said that remaining government troops were often hidden in areas populated: "when the people are used as shields we not to participate."
In the midst of the blockade it has increasing focus on diplomatic efforts, such as for example promoting key Gaddafi loyalists to unsubscribe.
Gaddafi apparently tried to play the same game. Libya's official Jana news agency said that he had sent a message to Obama "colonial after the withdrawal of America of the Crusader Alliance against Libya". The United States played a key role in early air strikes before NATO took over.
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