DOHA/TRIPOLI – Britain pressured other NATO members to beef up ground attacks in Libya on Wednesday as foreign ministers met in Qatar to try to open the deadlock in the country’s civil war. But divisions within NATO immediately appeared at the international “contact group” meeting when Belgium ruled out boosting air attacks or arming Libyan rebels. There is increasing frustration in Paris and London that air strikes have neither tipped the balance of the war in favour of rebels trying to end Muammar Gaddafi’s 41-year rule nor even ended devastating shelling of the besieged city of Misrata. French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe attacked NATO on Tuesday for not stopping the bombardment and said…
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DOHA/TRIPOLI – Britain pressured other NATO members to beef up ground attacks in Libya on Wednesday as foreign ministers met in Qatar to try to open the deadlock in the country’s civil war. But divisions within NATO immediately appeared at the international “contact group” meeting when Belgium ruled out boosting air attacks or arming Libyan rebels. There is increasing frustration in Paris and London that air strikes have neither tipped the balance of the war in favour of rebels trying to end Muammar Gaddafi’s 41-year rule nor even ended devastating shelling of the besieged city of Misrata. French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe attacked NATO on Tuesday for not stopping the bombardment and said…
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