Strikes on Libya set to slow

TRIPOLI: anti-aircraft fire were heard around Tripoli for a third night on Monday, but air attacks on Libya are likely to slow, a U.S. general said, that prevents Washington from being drawn into civil war Jamahiriya.
State television said several sites had been attacked in the capital. Western powers had no confirmation of the strike in a fresh UN mandate campaign to target anti-aircraft defenses, running a no-fly zone and protect civilians against the forces of Muammar Gaddafi.
The rebels, who had been returned to their stronghold Eastern Benghazi before the air attacks stopped the advancing forces Gaddafi has so far done little to capitalize on the campaign - raised fears the war could grind to a dead end .
But Washington, afraid of being dragged into another war, after long campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan, ruled out a specific action to overthrow Gaddafi, though France said Monday he hoped the Libyan government from collapse inside.
"My feeling is that - unless something unusual or unexpected happens, we may see a decrease in the frequency of attacks," General Carter Ham, who leads U.S. forces in the Libyan operation, said reporters in Washington.
President Barack Obama, questions that arise at home on the U.S. military bogged down in a third Muslim country, said Washington would cede control of Libyan operation in days.
"We expect this transition to occur in a few days and not a matter of weeks," Obama told a news conference during a visit to Chile.
He did not specify what country or organization will support, but Britain and France played a leading role in promoting intervention in Libya. The missile strikes have already been large enough to have destroyed much of the air defense of Libya.
Libyan state television reported that several sites in Tripoli had been subjected to new attacks by what he called "the enemy crossed." "These attacks will not scare the Libyan people," said a State television broadcast.
anti-aircraft fire were heard all night and pro-Qaddafi slogans included in the city center. Car accelerated through the streets of Tripoli honking wildly.
Al Jazeera said radar installations at two air defense bases in eastern Libya was hit. However, a spokesman for the French armed forces said France, which participated in strikes in the east, had no aircraft in the air at the time.
Meanwhile, residents of two besieged towns held by rebels in western Libya, and Misrata Zintan said they had been attacked by the forces of Gaddafi. Security analysts said they believe the government troops will try to force their way into civilian areas to escape attacks from the air.
In Misrata, residents said people had come out into the streets to try to prevent the forces of Gaddafi to enter the city.