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Coalition Flights

The coalition flew between 70 and 80 sorties yesterday, with more than half conducted by non-U.S. aircraft, Ham said. France, Spain, Italy, Denmark and the U.K. enforced the no-fly zone over Benghazi and coalition vessels patrolled the coast, he said. Both Italy and France deployed aircraft carriers.
“Many civilians were killed last night because many of the targets last night were civilian and quasi-military places,” Moussa Ibrahim, a Libyan government spokesman, said in an interview with Sky News. “The British government is killing more civilians to save civilians. This is absurd.”
Ibrahim said 48 civilians were killed on the first night of the operation, on March 19.
Norway said it is keeping its fighters grounded until there is clarity on the chain of command as France, the U.K. and allies including Turkey and the Arab states struggled to agree on whether NATO should guide the operation.
“The biggest obstacle to the Libyan intervention right now isn’t the Arab world but rather differences among France, the U.K. and the U.S. about who’s in charge,” said Techau.

NATO Debate

The option of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization taking charge of military operations may hinge in part on the extent of reservations expressed by Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Dialogue with the Libyan regime must continue, the premier said today in a speech to his party in parliament. Turkey has doubts over whether military intervention is justified, he said.
Turkey has assumed diplomatic functions in Libya on behalf of the U.S., U.K., Italy and Australia at their request, Foreign Ministry spokesman Selcuk Unal said today.
The Turkish embassy in Tripoli, which played a key role in negotiating the release of foreign journalists held in custody by Libyan forces, agreed to perform consular and diplomatic functions for the four nations after they closed their missions, Unal said in a telephone interview today.

Allied Forces

U.S. Vice Admiral Bill Gortney said Spain, Belgium, Denmark and Qatar have joined the coalition. The U.S., the U.K., France, Italy and Canada have at least 25 ships off the coast of Libya, including the French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle and the Italian carrier Giuseppe Garibaldi.
Obama and other alliance leaders, including U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron and French President Nicolas Sarkozy, have declared that their political objective is to force Qaddafi from power after more than four decades. Ham said it is “possible” the Libyan dictator would remain in power for some time.
China today called for an immediate cease-fire in the North African country. The United Nations resolution authorizing the military action was meant to “protect the safety of civilians,” Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu said at a briefing in Beijing today.
“The military actions taken by relevant countries are causing civilian casualties,” Jiang said. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin yesterday described the allied offensive as a “crusade.”
To contact the reporters on this story: Leon Mangasarian in Berlin at lmangasarian@bloomberg.net; Viola Gienger in Washington at vgienger@bloomberg.net
To contact the editors responsible for this story: Andrew J. Barden at barden@bloomberg.net