The U.S. President won on Tuesday the British and French support for a role for NATO in its air campaign against Libyan leader Muammar Gadhafi, while Western allies were discussing operational details to transfer command of the mission. Barack Obama, who has pushed for giving the U.S. command of allied operations in Libya in a few days, telephoned British Prime Minister, David Cameron, and French President Nicolas Sarkozy, and all agreed that NATO would play an important role White House said.
But the allies have not explicitly endorsed political leadership of NATO in the mission, which fear it could be an obstacle to Turkey, a member of the alliance, and cut the unstable Arab support for efforts to support the rebel anti Gadhafi. " What we are saying now is that NATO will have a key role to play, "said Ben Rhodes, a major national security adviser in the White House, told reporters aboard Air Force One Obama's personal diplomacy underlined that the capacity command and control of NATO will be central to developing the campaign against the forces of Gadhafi, who began with air attacks on Saturday were aimed at protecting civilians.
Seeking to bolster international support for the operation, Obama has called on leaders in Europe and the Middle East and stressed that NATO should take a coordinating role, while seeking to avoid being caught in another war in a Muslim country after Iraq and Afghanistan. In Brussels, NATO diplomats agreed on Tuesday to implement an arms embargo on Libya but again faced a heated debate over whether the alliance should lead the military campaign on Libya.
Admiral Samuel Locklear, commander of the U.S. forces in the implementation of the no-fly zone on Libya, said he was working closely with the British and French officers and military troops from 13 nations were moving to participate in the mission. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates told reporters in Moscow that still saw a rapid transfer of power.
"I do not want to get ahead of the diplomacy that has been carried out but I still think that a transfer in a few days is likely, "Gates told reporters on a visit to Russia." This issue of command and control is complicated. We have not done anything like this. Before we made progress, "he added.
A U.S. official said Washington believed that NATO would effectively have to take operational control, if not political, because of their higher command structure. This leaflet, which has strongly resisted France and Turkey, threatens to alienate the Arab nations' perceptions of Western aggression against a Muslim country.
"We're still waiting for NATO," said a U.S. official, speaking on condition of anonymity . "It could be a subtle leadership of NATO, yet NATO's leadership," he added. 
But the allies have not explicitly endorsed political leadership of NATO in the mission, which fear it could be an obstacle to Turkey, a member of the alliance, and cut the unstable Arab support for efforts to support the rebel anti Gadhafi. " What we are saying now is that NATO will have a key role to play, "said Ben Rhodes, a major national security adviser in the White House, told reporters aboard Air Force One Obama's personal diplomacy underlined that the capacity command and control of NATO will be central to developing the campaign against the forces of Gadhafi, who began with air attacks on Saturday were aimed at protecting civilians.
Seeking to bolster international support for the operation, Obama has called on leaders in Europe and the Middle East and stressed that NATO should take a coordinating role, while seeking to avoid being caught in another war in a Muslim country after Iraq and Afghanistan. In Brussels, NATO diplomats agreed on Tuesday to implement an arms embargo on Libya but again faced a heated debate over whether the alliance should lead the military campaign on Libya.
Admiral Samuel Locklear, commander of the U.S. forces in the implementation of the no-fly zone on Libya, said he was working closely with the British and French officers and military troops from 13 nations were moving to participate in the mission. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates told reporters in Moscow that still saw a rapid transfer of power.
"I do not want to get ahead of the diplomacy that has been carried out but I still think that a transfer in a few days is likely, "Gates told reporters on a visit to Russia." This issue of command and control is complicated. We have not done anything like this. Before we made progress, "he added.
A U.S. official said Washington believed that NATO would effectively have to take operational control, if not political, because of their higher command structure. This leaflet, which has strongly resisted France and Turkey, threatens to alienate the Arab nations' perceptions of Western aggression against a Muslim country.
"We're still waiting for NATO," said a U.S. official, speaking on condition of anonymity . "It could be a subtle leadership of NATO, yet NATO's leadership," he added.
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