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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Intelligence on the rebels battling Libya's Muammar Gaddafi has shown "flickers" of al Qaeda or Hezbollah presence, NATO's operations commander said, but U.S. officials said there were no indications militant groups are playing a significant role in Libya. "We are examining very closely the content, composition, the personalities, who are the leaders of these opposition forces," Admiral James Stavridis, NATO's supreme allied commander for Europe and commander of U.S. European Command, said in testimony to a U.S. Senate hearing on Tuesday. But several national security officials quickly and firmly denied that al Qaeda or Hezbollah were significantly...

CAIR, A Serious Double Standard by Ari Bussel Ibrahim Hooper for CAIR (Council on American Islamic Relations), speaking on behalf “an estimated 500 Libyan-Americans in the greater Washington, D.C., area:” Community activists will also outline ongoing efforts to create a military no-fly zone and naval exclusion area that would protect civilian protesters seeking the removal of Libya’s dictatorial regime. It is indeed imperative, according to CAIR, “to lobby Congress to support a no-fly zone covering that North African nation.” I would urge those concerned to learn from the Israeli experience. We have all became accustomed to the buzz-words “Siege” and...