Nato chief fails in appeal for more fighter planes for Libya mission

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Nato’s foreign ministers struggled to resolve deep differences over the Libyan campaign yesterday and failed to muster more fighter planes to attack Muammar Gaddafi’s troops despite British and French calls for greater military support from other alliance countries. Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Nato’s Secretary General, ended the first day of a two-day summit in Berlin with a plea for more aircraft to attack Colonel Gaddafi’s ground forces. However, there was no commitment to provide more planes and the issue of arming rebel troops was…

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Nato chief fails in appeal for more fighter planes for Libya mission

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