Tripoli, Libya (CNN) nepotism inner circle showed any signs of cracking Friday, pounding cities - as Moammar, once some of the most prosperous places in the country armed forces were continued strongly loyal to the Libyan leader.
Officials and analysts said the increase in the firepower of the Libyan Government sends a message: nepotism is determined to assert itself and some defectors make nervous him his allies high-profile.
"You certainly get evidence that there is a lot of tension." ... Any person, the leaves, makes, that it a little scarier for the people who still remain. And you can a tipping effect, at any given time, "said Anne-Marie slaughter, Professor of international relations at Princeton University."
Word was on Thursday, that nepotism's pick for UN Ambassador to Egypt-defected had a day after Foreign Minister Libya fled to London and said the Government is that he had resigned.
Citing unnamed British Government sources, the newspaper the Guardian reported Friday, that a senior consultant was a nepotism's sons for secret talks with British officials in London. The consultants of Saif al-Islam nepotism, Mohammed Ismael, said CNN earlier this week that he would travel to London for family reasons. Phone calls on his mobile phone from CNN on Friday were not answered.
Asked about the guardian report, a spokesman for the UK Foreign Office neither confirmed nor denied it.
"We do not go to provide running commentary on our contacts Libyan officials", said the spokesman. "In touch, we have, we make it clear, the nepotism has to go."
Rebel fighters also said that they decided, nepotism's almost 42 years rule to overthrow remained.
But the battles to major cities are far from over.
Rebels massed on the outskirts of the Government controlled town al-Brega, dramatically shifting has changed hands six times of six weeks in circumstances in the civil war of the country's oil.
Third largest city of Misurata, Libya, and the last rebel stronghold in the western part of the country, was besieged by Pro nepotism troops. Hard building after weeks of urban combat damaged-lined streets with wreck covered.
Eyewitnesses reported that the downtown escaped most of the residents, after the Government troops positioned town used sniper towers and tanks and artillery in the Centre.
Their hopes for more NATO airpower have fixed clearly outgunned, opposition forces.
"We want to bring a quick end," said Colonel Ahmed Omar Bani, a spokesman for the opposition, CNN. "A strike is not a slap if it kills."
U.S. officials say that since the beginning of the UN sanctioned air strikes have steadily undermined nepotism of military capabilities.
But the dictator's forces nor ground than rebels by about 10: 1 on armor and other forces, Joint Chiefs of staff Chairman Admiral Mike Mullen tells House Armed Services Committee Thursday.
Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, also before the Committee, Cohen warned that the Libyan rebels need considerable training and support.
"It's pretty much a pickup ball game" right now, he said.
American and British officials say, no decision on whether the opposition obtained arms.
The Obama reiterates Gates Administration promises that no ground troops should be used, in Libya, members of the Committee to say that the rebels had indicated that she wanted to such intervention.
However, the United States has CIA personnel on the ground.
CIA activists were in Libya profits of loyalist troops working with the leader of the reverse attempts a U.S. intelligence source said. The United States, there are now meets more a support role in the Coalition, moved to took in this direction as NATO sole command operations in Libya.
A U.S. intelligence source said the CIA operates in the country increase U.S. "military and political understanding" of the situation.
But leave can officials Libya at the end of play a more decisive role play as forces or CIA agents on the ground.
After the defecting Wednesday, former Foreign Minister of Libyan Moussa Koussa was optional with officials in the United Kingdom, British Foreign Secretary William Hague said.
Hague, said Koussa of leaving Libya shows ", that nepotism... is fragmented, crumbling under pressure, and from the inside."
Koussa said not the Libyan Government, that he planned to stop before he arrived in the United Kingdom Libyan Government spokesman Moussa Ibrahim said Thursday.
But Ibrahim downplayed the exit itself say Koussa was an old man in poor health, which not the pressure been to cope with his job.
On Thursday, a leader of the opposition and a relative said that the man tapped nepotism as defected after Egypt UN representative of the country.
Former Foreign Minister Ali Abdussalam Treki who was the President of the General Assembly of the United Nations recently, Abdurrahman Mohamed Shalgham was as Ambassador in New York to replace. But he never arrived.
"I evidence it is believe that nepotism is increasingly isolated in his own country." ... Alan Solomont, the US Ambassador to Spain, said some of the most important participants in his regime and people who give it to him are, "Reporters Friday."
Such defectors are operating in the Middle East important, but not as important as the departure of nepotism's members would be family, according to Robert Baer, a former CIA.
"This clan to crack, and he is." "These elite units will fall apart, the tribe is defects, and there are all about", said hurkunde bear CNNS.CNN's Frederik Pleitgen, Ben Wedeman, NIC Robertson, Reza Sayah and Al Goodman contributed to this report.
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