The New York Times
Tue, March 01, 2011 -- 6:49 PM ET
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Libyan Rebels, Invoking U.N., May Ask West for Airstrikes
In a sign of mounting frustration among rebel leaders at
Colonel Muammar el-Qaddafi's diminished but unyielding grip
on power, the revolutionary council in Libya is debating
whether to ask for Western airstrikes on some of the regime's
most important military assets under a United Nations banner,
according to four people with knowledge of the council's
deliberations.
By invoking the United Nations, the council, made up lawyers,
academics, judges and other prominent figures, is seeking to
draw a distinction between the airstrikes and foreign
intervention, which the rebels say they emphatically oppose.
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