Allied Leaders Agree That Qaddafi Must Be Removed

Allied Leaders Agree That Qaddafi Must Be Removed

LONDON — Leaders of the four dozen countries and international organizations meeting here on Tuesday made it clear that the NATO-led military operation in Libya would end only with the removal of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, even though that is not the stated aim of the United Nations resolution authorizing it.

“When the fighting is over, we will need to put right the damage that Qaddafi has inflicted,” the British prime minister, David Cameron, said as he convened the conference. He added, “It’s never too early to start planning coordinated action to support peace in Libya over the longer term.”

The conference was the second to gather American, NATO and Arab officials since the United Nations Security Council cleared the way for international airstrikes in Libya 10 days ago. Mr. Cameron said that Colonel Qaddafi’s government remained in “flagrant breach” of the United Nations resolution, citing fresh reports of fighting in Misurata, a city seized by rebels and now under a counterassault by loyalist forces.

“All of us must continue the pressure on and deepen the isolation of the Qaddafi regime,” Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said, addressing the leaders seated around a long table at the Lancaster House in central London. “This includes a unified front of political and diplomatic pressure that makes clear to Qaddafi he must go.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/30/world/africa/30london.html

how to spell his name and whether McDonalds or Burger King should get the premier position in Benghazi.

Either from the rebels or the Libyan government.

not by foreign ground forces -- rather by the Libyan people in the person of "the rebels." Give all the air support needed, but it must be Libyan hands that either kill him or take him into custody and ensure that he is tried for crimes against humanity.