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The White House is considering more aggressive airstrikes, which would make targets of Colonel Qaddafi's tanks and heavy artillery — an option sometimes referred to as a "no-drive zone".

Representative Dennis J. Kucinich, Democrat of Ohio, has raised the possibility of impeaching President Barack Obama for ordering aggressive airstrikes against Libya, while Mitt Romney, a potential Republican presidential candidate, has said the policy shows the commander in chief to be "tentative, indecisive, timid and nuanced".

BENGHAZI, Libya — NATO officials and Western leaders defended the increasingly aggressive airstrikes in Libya on Sunday after the Libyan government said one barrage had killed four members of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi's family, raising criticism that the attacks exceeded the Security Council resolution authorizing the use of force.

With the advances made by loyalists, there is growing consensus in the Obama administration that imposing a no-flight zone would no longer make much of a difference, and that it should consider more aggressive airstrikes, which would make targets of Colonel Qaddafi's tanks and heavy artillery — an option sometimes referred to as a no-drive zone.

Iran, meanwhile, convinced the Assad government to launch aggressive airstrikes against the self-proclaimed caliphate.

And when it comes to terrorism, he told ABC News in February, "I think anywhere and everywhere, we have to go beyond just aggressive airstrikes.… We have to be prepared to put boots on the ground".

NATO had agreed late Thursday that it would take over not only command and control of the no-fly zone, but also the much riskier campaign to protect civilians through aggressive coalition airstrikes on Colonel Qaddafi's troops on the ground, the officials said.

WASHINGTON — NATO will assume leadership from the United States of patrolling the skies over Libya but the military alliance remains divided over who will command aggressive coalition airstrikes on Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi's ground troops, NATO and American officials said Thursday.

The Yemeni government began cooperating with the United States military last fall on a newly aggressive campaign of airstrikes and ground assaults against the group.

Some senior State Department officials have been pushing for a more aggressive military response, including airstrikes to hit the primary landing strips in Syria that the Assad government uses to launch the chemical weapons attacks, ferry troops around the country and receive shipments of arms from Iran.

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