Libyan rebels found on the ground in a new advance on the port of Brega oil on Wednesday but accused NATO of inaction that hamper their quest to oust Muammar al-Gaddafi.
NATO said that Kadhafi was makes more increasingly difficult for pilots to conduct air strikes by ensconcing its forces in densely populated areas and use civilians as human shields.
Vehicles belonging to the forces loyal to the Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi burn after an air strike by the forces of the coalition, along a road between Benghazi and Ajdabiyah on March 20, 2011.
Although the rebels have someheadway, they complained a lack of support for NATO bombers.
"Government forces are afraid of the air strikes of NATO but NATO is not bombing anything first place," said rebel Idriss Abdel Karim.
"No there were no air strikes." We hear the sound, but they did bomb anything, said Hossam Ahmed, another rebel.
"What NATO expected?" We have towns that are destroyed. Ras Lanuf, Bin Jawad, Brega, Gaddafi is completely destroying the Misrata "added said Emburak, a resident of Ajdabiyah."
NATO airstrikes are targeting the military infrastructure of Gaddafi but only to protect civilians, not step to provide air support closer to the rebels, much to their dismay, as part of a
no-fly zone mandated by the United Nations Security Council.
Still, their abandonment applications since the NATO mission to a coalition of U.S. - British-French, including initial onslaught on Gaddafi in forcé had tilted the average rebel war, to the Western military alliance on the defensive.
Spokesperson Carmen Romero maintained that "the pace of our operations continues." "tirelessly he has not changed the ambition and the position of our strikes"
The NATO spokesman added that the relieve the siege of Misrata, a rebel enclave in the West, remains the priority, but conceded that army Gaddafi has prove smart, elusive target.
"The situation on the ground is changing." Gaddafi forces change tactics, using civilian vehicles, tanks in cities such as Misrata masking and the use of human shields is to hide behind, "Romero said to journalists in Brussels.
It reiterated the position of NATO air power had destroyed 30 per cent of the military capability of Gaddafi so far.
Western air power has shaped a rough military balance in Libya, preventing them from Gaddafi the troops of the motley rebel force of overflow that dominates the is - but not sufficiently vigorous for the insurgents to firmly advance hundreds of kilometres along the Mediterranean coast to the capital Tripoli in the West.
French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe said NATO operations are at risk of "founder us" because the forces of Gaddafi were makes it more difficult for the pilots of the alliance to distinguish them from civilians by mixing in populated areas.
He said radio France Info that it will address the issue with the head of NATO, adding that the test in bastion rebel Misrata "can not go" but that "the situation is not clear."
Head of the armed forces of Admiral Edouard Guillaud, France, said on Europe 1 radio: "I would be as things go faster but... average civilian fire protection not anywhere close to them." This is precisely the difficulty. ?
Misrata, under fire daily artillery, tanks and sniper, is the Centre of single large population in the West of the Libya - about 200 km (120 miles) is Tripoli - where a popular uprising two months against Gaddafi was not stamped out.
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