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Updated Thursday, March 10, 2011 11:28 am TWN, By Maggie Michael and Sarah El Deeb, AP



	Libyan Leader Moammar Gadhafi, center, arrives at a hotel to give television interviews in Tripoli, Libya, Tuesday, March 8. (AP) Enlarge Photo

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Libya official flies to Egypt with Gadhafi message

CAIRO -- A high-ranking member of the Libyan military landed in Cairo on Wednesday and embassy staff told Egyptian officials that he was carrying a message from embattled leader Moammar Gadhafi.

An Egyptian army official told The Associated Press on condition of anonymity that Maj. Gen Abdul-Rahman bin Ali al-Saiid al-Zawi, the head of Libya's logistics and supply authority, was asking to meet Egypt's military rulers.

No further details were immediately available.

After weeks of dramatic setbacks, Gadhafi appears to have at least temporarily seized the momentum in his fight against rebels trying to move on the capital, Tripoli, from territory they hold in eastern Libya.

The two sides traded barrages of artillery shells and rockets about 12 miles (20 kilometers) west of the oil port of Ras Lanouf, an indication that regime forces were much closer to the city than previously known.

Gadhafi's successes have left Western powers struggling to come up with a plan to support the rebels without becoming ensnared in the complex and fast-moving conflict.

U.S. President Barack Obama's most senior advisers were meeting Wednesday to outline what steps are realistic and possible to pressure Gadhafi to halt the violence and give up power.

They planned to examine the ramifications of a no-fly zone over Libya and other potential military options, although the final decision will rest with Obama, U.S. officials said, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss internal administration deliberations.

Britain and France are pushing for the U.N. to create a no-fly zone over Libya, and while the U.S. may be persuaded to sign on, such a move is unlikely to win the backing of veto-wielding Security Council members Russia and China, which traditionally object to such steps as infringements on national sovereignty.

Gadhafi said in a Turkish television interview that Libyans would fight back if Western nations imposed a no-fly zone to prevent his regime from using its air force to bomb government opponents staging a rebellion.

He said imposing the restrictions would prove the West's real intention was to seize his country's oil wealth.

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