Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates made his views for the first time on Thursday in a marathon day certificate known members of Congress. He said the United States should be made on communication, monitoring and other support, but suggested that the Administration had no problem with other countries to help send arms, the rebels, which forces withdrawal was in the last few days under attack by Pro-Qaddafi have.
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, which the President in Libya intervention pushed, was described by an administration officials on Thursday as highly cautious about armament the rebels "because of the unknown" about who they were and whether she could have links to Al-Qaeda.
You allow earlier Thursday, the Secretary General of NATO, Anders Fogh Rasmussen told reporters in Stockholm, that he believed that the UN Security Council resolution to authorize the air campaign in Libya not even has individual countries, to prepare the rebels. However, there was considerable disagreement within the military alliance, to arm them including the United States, which can be in fact the position, which has taken the resolution.
In Libya as the opposition forces a careful transfer began withdrawal the an atmosphere of paranoia in the capital Tripoli, after a panic on Wednesday, after the withdrawal of the Foreign Minister, Moussa Koussa.
Fears that the Government could be cracking were if a second top Libyan official, Ali Abdussalam el-Treki, übergelaufen Thursday after Egypt further deepened.
In Washington, the consistent position of Mr Gates and Mrs Clinton seemed a debate within the Administration about the benefits of the United States the arms of the rebels, a different, little known group stump. Publicly, Mr Obama has only said that he still weigh is what to do. France is the only State that said that you intended, forces deliver weapons, the anti-Qaddafi.
"What needs the opposition like all now some training, is some command and control, and some organization," armed services Committee in a morning session said Mr Gates members of the House. "It's pretty much a pickup ball game at this point."
But, he said, training and weapons is "not a unique function for the United States, and as far as I'm concerned, someone else can do."
Mr Gates told Congress that he bet heavily against all American forces in Libya. Asked whether it would be American "boots on the ground" - uniformed military - Mr Gates quickly replied, "not as long as I am in this job." He refused, address reports that the Central Intelligence Agency after Libya, to collect intelligence for military air strikes and to contact and the rebels veterinarian had sent secret agents.
Mr Gates and Admiral Mike Mullen, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of staff, summoned, in highly politicized testify atmosphere on Capitol Hill, where members of both parties with them either "Mission Creep" in Libya or does go not enough.
Many demanded to know how the conflict would end, and others warned the Administration, saying that it had gone without congressional approval for the war.
Still others said the President had said not the public the truth about the operation. The White House describes it as a humanitarian mission to protect of the Libyan civilians, but it has raised strafing more than 200 Tomahawk cruise missiles in Libya and the bombing and of the United States involved in and Allied aircraft of Colonel Qadhafi's forces ground.
"These are the fighting," said Representative Mike Coffman, Republican of Colorado, while in the morning. "I don't know why this Administration has been not honest with the American people, that this is about regime change."
He concluded, "This probably in U.S. military history is only the most muddled definition of an operation."
Senator John McCain, Republican of Arizona, was the first in the offensive in the afternoon, charge that the Administration with which go away from the conflict now, military support behind NATO will be that it said the United States in a role.
What does this mean, Admiral Mullen told Mr. McCain and the rest of the Senate Armed Services Committee, that the United States no more airstrikes in Libya, when will perform is called for by NATO.
"This would be a profound mistake with potentially disastrous consequences," Mr. McCain said. He said that withdrawing the muscle of the American military oust alignment policy goal with Mr Obama was Colonel Qadhafi.
"Hope is not a strategy," said Mr McCain, "and it will not affect certainly, armored units".
Mr Gates, ideologically all day found himself in the difficult position of having to defend a military action, the he unwillingly in were received in the first place.
Steven Lee Myers contributed reporting.
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