U.S. forces handed over command of air operations in Libya to NATO early Thursday, just as reports emerged that Central Intelligence Agency operatives are on the ground there gathering intelligence for air strikes and on the rebels fighting against Muammar Qadhafi’s regime.
The official transfer of leadership puts in NATO’s hands control of the no-fly zone over Libya, an arms embargo and “protecting civilians and civilian-populated areas against the threat of attack,” NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said in a statement.
via politico.com
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