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April 6 (Bloomberg)--NATO intensified its air campaign on the Libya a day after a rebel commander criticized the alliance for far is not enough to stop artillery attacks by the forces of Muammar al-Gaddafi who have pushed the rebels to retreat.Treaty Organization North Atlantic jets plan to fly over the 198 Libya missions today, increased more stolen 155 yesterday, senior spokesman for the NATO that oana Lungescu said in a statement. The "operational tempo has increased" in NATO, she said.Rebels aimed at Qathafi rule 42 years and loyalists have leads battles course on the coastal road between the Sirte Qathafi bastion and the rebel-held town of Ajdabiyah in the last six weeks. Minister for Foreign Affairs French Alain Juppe called the situation on the ground "confused" and said coalition pilots are having difficulty targeting because both parties are using the same types of pickup trucks.NATO is slow "in responding to our instructions"on the objectives and is Abdel Fattah Younes, head of the rebel army and former Minister of the Interior of Qathafi failing to "give us what we need", said at a Benghazi press conference broadcast on television Al Jazeera. " The rebels withdrew under a fire of the oil port of Brega, about 150 miles (241 kilometers) South of Benghazi.More U.K. JetsBritain said that he committed four of combat aircraft of the additional Typhoon mission of NATO after that its fighters struck yesterday six armoured vehicles and six battle tanks. Fill the vacuum "responds to the current requirements of NATO," Ministry of defence of the United Kingdom said in a statement by Lungescu of London.NATO e-mail, said today in an interview with television BBC that one-third of the military means of Qathafi "have been destroyed" and that the loyalists are now hiding their armor in the cities of jets of NATO. "They use human shields in force," she said.Crude oil future pared gains after a U.S. Government report showed a decrease in smaller than forecasts of supplies of gasoline. Crude oil for delivery in may past 3 cents to $108.37 US per barrel at 10: 39 on the New York Mercantile Exchange. "We have half a plan at the moment,"Richard Dannatt, former Chief of staff of the United Kingdom stated in an interview with Bloomberg Television." "Success is equivalent to when Qathafi disappeared." This is what they cannot say. "This is what we have to do, even if".Younes MisrataThe rebel headquarters was particularly critical of the alliance of 28 members for failing to stop the long weeks of Qathafi of Misrata headquarters, the Western rebels near Tripoli held city was the scene of repeated attacks. A resident of Misrata spoke on the phone said that tank shelling had decreased. "" It has been relatively quiet today, however, there are a few skirmishes in the Centre of the city, "said the resident, who identified himself as Mountasser. "Stopped tank shelling but snipers are around."American and European Governments have said repeatedly that Gaddafi, 68, must leave and have rejected the Libyan Government diplomatic openings, which, on 4 April, called for an "international dialogue" to resolve the conflict.Curt Weldon, a former Congress Member, provides meet Qathafi today to persuade Libyan leader give up power, he wrote in an article in the New York Times. Weldon heads a delegation private in Tripoli at the invitation of a Qathafi .can help ' t bomb in the argument "I met him enough times to know that it will be very difficult to him simply bomb into submission," Weldon wrote. He proposed a ceasefire monitored by the Organization of the United Nations and negotiations with the "pragmatic and reformist" leaders in the regime, including possibly the Qathafi son, Seif al - Islam rebel .the are preparing to make their first international oil sales as the tanker Ecuadorwhich can carry 1 million barrels, arrived at the Marsa al Hariga terminal near the port of Tobruk in Libya is held by the rebel yesterday, Ltd. AISLive vessel monitoring data compiled by Bloomberg. Cargo may bring more than 100 million dollars for the rebels.Capture of Brega, a focus of fighting in the course of the last days, would be crucial for the rebels because its refinery could stimulate the control of the opposition of the oil in the East. National Council of the rebels said on April 1, that it had concluded an agreement to obtain Libyan support of Qatar oil market, with the proceeds going towards food, fuel, medicine and other uses. Company oil Italian Eni SpA has been in contact with the Libyan rebels, now that the Italy acknowledged the Council .the ' American army withdrew his fighter aircraft, after a mission on April 4 on the Libya making a promise by President Barack Obama to get more military missions of NATO and its allies. The United States will keep the pending attack aircraft and resume flights if necessary, while U.S. command and control aircraft and Navy ships remain in action.Gaddafi sent a message to Obama, the official Libyan news agency reported today. The message follows the "withdrawal of American colonial aggression against the Libya crusader coalition," he said, without giving further details.-With the help of Gregory Viscusi in Paris, Alaric Nightingale in London, Massoud Derhally to Beirut, Flavia Krause-Jackson at Rome, Zahra Hankir, Zainab Fattah and Tamara Walid Dubai and David Lerman in Washington. Editors: Leon Mangasarian, Patrick Henry.
To contact the reporter on this story: Patrick Donahue in Berlin at the pdonahue1@bloomberg.net.
To contact the editor responsible for this story: James Hertling to jhertling@bloomberg.net Andrew j. Barden at barden@bloomberg.net
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