TRIPOLI, LIBYA: Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, increasingly cornered under a stunning upturn in NATO airstrikes, lashed back with renewed shelling of the western city of Misrata Wednesday, killing 10 rebel fighters. The international alliance said it remained determined to keep pounding Gadhafi forces from the air, but would play no military role in the transition to democratic rule in the oil-rich North African country once the erratic leader’s 42-year rule was ended. In Brussels, NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said Gadhafi’s days in power were clearly…
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