NATO TAKES SOLE CONTROL OF LIBYA AIR OPERATIONS

NATO's chief said Thursday the alliance doesn't support U.S. and British suggestions that the U.N. mandate for the international armed operation in Libya allow arming rebels who are fighting Moammar Gadhafi's troops.

NATO unspoken command of all air operations over Libya early Thursday, taking over from the U.S., which had been eager to be rid of that accountability. NATO Chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen told reporters in Stockholm that NATO's position is that "we are there to protect the Libyan people, not to division the people."

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