UK plans military team for Libya

Libya's foreign minister has warned Britain in opposition to deploying military specialist to help anti-Gaddafi forces, saying such a move would only delay the combating.

The UK government proclaimed overnight that it intends to send a group of military advisers to the rebel-controlled city of Benghazi to provide astuteness support and logistics guidance.

It comes as NATO express increasing frustration that its air strikes are failing to secure any noteworthy gains for the rebel forces that are hardly hanging on to the areas they manage.

But the Gaddafi regime is advising its own solution.

The foreign minister is calling for a armistice with a view to universal elections being held, and he's left open the likelihood that Libyans themselves can decide who governs them.

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Gadhafi forces roll back as rebels try to organize

NATO ships began patrol off Libya's coast Wednesday as airstrikes, missiles and eager rebels compulsory Moammar Gadhafi's tanks to roll back from two key western cities, as well as one that was the place of birth of army officers who tried to conquer him in 1993.

Libya's antagonism took haphazard steps to form a government in the east, as they and the U.S.-led force defensive them girded for prolonged and costly fighting. In spite of incompetence among the rebels — and bewilderment over who would in the end run the international process — partnership airstrikes and missiles seemed to frustrate Gadhafi's efforts to rout his enemies, at least for now.

Anti-aircraft fire lit up the sky in Tripoli late Wednesday, and detonation could be heard.

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