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Airstrikes  Ad Feedback  Libyan rebels are complaining that NATO
has been slow to launch airstrikes against government forces.
Opposition fighters have been trying to oust Libyan dictator
Moammar Gadhafi for weeks. NATO's airstrikes allowed them to
push back against Gadhafi's troops. Now the rebels say the
strikes aren't coming fast enough.  "NATO is not doing their
job. The airstrikes are late and never on time. NATO is not
helping us," complained Pvt. Mohammed Abdullah, a 30-year-old
former member of Gadhafi's army who joined the rebel side. 
"Gahdafi still gets ammunition and supplies to his forces,
that's why he is pushing us back," he said. "We don't know what
he would be able to do if there are no airstrikes."  French
Foreign Minister Alain Juppe defended the alliance. He said the
military operation is getting complicated because Gadhafi's
forces are taking positions in popu