US extends role in the Libyan air strikes - Chicago Sun-Times

By RICHARD LARDNER Associated Press on April 3, 2011, 11: 08 pm Libyan rebels chant slogans, flash "V" signs and firearms at a welcome reception for Libyan fellow injured aboard the expedient Turkish Ankara, carrying 250 wounded from Misrata, as it docks in the port of Benghazi vaguesEn Libya Sunday, April 3, 2011. Libyan rebels want to install a parliamentary democracy instead of long-time leader Muammar Gaddafi, one of their top leaders said Sunday, dismissing the West fears that their movement could be hijacked by Islamic extremists. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser) WASHINGTON - in the United States have agreed to the request of NATO for an extension of 48 hours of the American participation in the coalition air strikes against targets in Libya and legislators Sunday warned U.S. allies must learn more about the rebelsthe armed forces of Muammar Gaddafi before giving their weapons.Two weeks to the onslaught of Gaddafi, said Republican lawmakers fear that an impasse could leave him in control of portions of the Libya and access to stocks of chemical weapons.The United States moves the role of fighting for Britain, the France and other allies in NATO, but American air power is always in demand. Battle of the air force AC-130 and A - 10 Thunderbolts and AV - 8B Harrier Marine Corps will continue to attack the troops of Gadhafi and other sites through tonight. These aircraft are among the most accurate in the American arsenal.Former President Bill Clinton said in an interview recorded Sunday for "Good Morning America the string ABC", "would not close the door" for arming the Libyan rebels. But Clinton was quick to point out that he was not speaking for the administration of the besieged Obama. residents tell shellingFrom fortune in a cruise-ship-turned-hospital beds, injured residents of a Libyan besieged city said Sunday in daily shelling, looting and fire by the forces of Muammar al-Gaddafi and called at the end of the reign of 42 years of its Libyan leader.The ship, carrying hundreds of Misrata in Turkey care, made a brief stopover in Benghazi, where young rebels gathered on the quayside to welcome them and to seek news of a crenellated town which has been largely cut off from the world for weeks.Dozens of men, many care, nursing gunshot wounds and missing branches, wear thin mats in the hull of the ship, speaking of rebels attacks and youth of brutal Government of difficult to repel.While half the Libya Eastern quickly fell under rebel control, Misrata, 125 km to the southeast of the capital, Tripoli, was one of the two cities of the West which have increased at the beginning of the revolt against Gaddafi. His elite forces Misrata besieged for weeks, cutting food and water and power lines, but the rebels camped on their positions.The regime has resumed the Zawiya city. AP

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