Priority of NATO: Soldiers or Gadhafi?

'Complete chaos' in Libya hospitalCNN source said NATO believed that the resolution of the UN on Libya justified killing Muammar Gadhafi. NATO replies: "We simply do not address people." NATO is trying to decide what bomb first, Gadhafi army or the leader himself.

Night after night, day after day, NATO planes have forged presidential compounds in Trípoli, Libya. I have walked on the piles of rubble.

My CNN colleagues and I have seen, especially in the last few days, giving extra credit for CNN Fran Townsend counter terrorism analysts reports NATO leadership believes that the resolution of the UN on Libya justified to kill the country's leader Moammar Gadhafi.

Source of Townsend, a senior military official in NATO with knowledge of the Libya of NATO operations, also implies that they could do more for destination Gadhafi.

The comments drew a quick response by a spokesman for the NATO, it hinted an internal split within the organisation over tactics.

"We address critical military capabilities that could be used to attack civilians, including the command and control centres that could be used to plan and organize this kind of attack," Oana Lungescu, said the spokesman. "We simply do not address people."

Townsend source points out that Gadhafi Libya military commands and is at the heart of his command and control.

Gadhafi, several diplomats said at a meeting of the Group of contact of Libya in Abu Dhabi on Thursday, he is prepared to see his army get bombed on the ground, rather than quitting.

In fact, this very week Gadhafi said in a speech of radio which could die instead of step.

What looks like a backup for the debate in NATO is, with limited resources, must first bomb it? Should NATO go after Gadhafi army around rebel strongholds as Misrata, that will do nothing to remove the dictator?
Does NATO or relentlessly pursued the same man, because the more is longer the war drags out and the final cost of pick up the pieces?

Three weeks before that as Secretary of Defense Robert Gates made clear that he is not happy with the way things are going.

He warned the heads of NATO that European partners of the Alliance are relying too heavily on the United States.

"The most powerful military alliance in history is just 11 weeks in an operation against a poorly armed regime in a sparsely populated country - though many allies are beginning to run out of ammunition, requiring the United States, once again, to compensate for the difference", said.

The pointed language highlights the urgent need to reach the end of the game - Gadhafi and not of his troops.


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