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WASHINGTON — An American-led military campaign to destroy Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi's air defenses and establish a no-fly zone over Libya has nearly accomplished its initial objectives, and the United States is moving swiftly to hand command to allies in Europe, American officials said Monday.

Poeymirau defeated n'Ifrutant in battle at Meski on 15 January, but was seriously wounded in the chest by the accidental explosion of an artillery shell and was forced to hand command to Colonel Antoine Huré.

When he leaves town for a day or two, he apparently hands command to Deputy Mayor Marc V. Shaw.

The United States has taken a back seat in the air campaign after handing command to Nato on March 31 and France has suggested it needs to return to the campaign.

Liniers refused this proposal as well, and handed command to Cisneros without resistance.

He handed command to Fernández de la Cruz and moved to Tucumán, where he met his daughter Manuela Mónica, just one year old.

A grievously wounded Macouillard handed command to his second, Lieutenant Biron, with orders to take the surviving men back to the fortified French camp at Aïn Médiouna, around 2 km distant.

After stationing his batteries on a slight incline, to protect the retreat from the Austrians, the injured Ney handed command to Gazan, who organized and conducted the successful retreat.

The system's limitations contributed to a number of issues during the August 2011 riots, the report found, including the inability to monitor key incidents; slow communication with commanders on the ground; the lack of capability to hand over command to the oncoming team; and the inability to log key decisions and rationales for future review.

They have been beating retreat at Basra airfield today as the British hand over command to the Americans for the next two years.

But of all the challenges faced by General Allen, who on Sunday will hand his command to Gen. Joseph F. Dunford Jr. and leave Afghanistan, one remains as central today as it was when he landed in Kabul: keeping President Hamid Karzai's distrust of the United States in check, and keeping the Obama administration committed to an ally who has tested the limits of its patience.