US general sees no military outcome in Libya

Ajdabiyah, Libya: Libyan rebels said five of their fighters were killed when NATO aircraft mistakenly bombed a rebel column of tanks and a U.S. general said they were unlikely to be able to overthrow Muammar Gaddafi by force.
With daily skirmishes attacked near the port of Brega in eastern Libya made little impact on the frontline and rebel unable to end a brutal assault on government west of the town of Misrata, the NATO admits its mission to protect civilians is difficult.
In rebel-held eastern Libya, the rebels wounded being taken to hospital Ajdabiyah said their trucks and tanks were hit Thursday by a NATO airstrike outside Brega, where the fighting lasted for a week.
It was the second time in less than a week that the rebels had accused NATO to bomb their comrades by mistake after 13 were killed in an airstrike near the same spot on Saturday.
Meanwhile, the rebels have accused NATO of being too slow to order air strikes, they have come to depend in their uprising to end more than four decades of Qaddafi.
NATO said it was investigating an attack on his plane on a column of tanks into the area along the Mediterranean coast, on Thursday, saying the situation was "clear and fluid."
Asked if a deadlock in the conflict emerges from seven weeks of age, the head of the U.S. Africa Command General Carter Ham said: "I agree with this at present, on the ground. "
He told a Senate hearing in Washington in the United States should not the arm of the rebellion, without a better idea of ​​who they were and when asked how the war ends, said: ". I think it does not stop militarily "
It was unlikely that the rebels would be able to make their way to Tripoli, Gadhafi and evict by force, "said Ham.