All Libya options open, says Obama

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"2">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p><a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;londonglossy&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2011&sol;03&sol;all-libya-options-open-says-obama&period;jpg"><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full" title&equals;"Barack Obama is considering every intervention option in Libya&comma; including military might &lpar;AP&rpar;" src&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;londonglossy&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2011&sol;03&sol;min-all-libya-options-open-says-obama&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Barack Obama is considering every intervention option in Libya&comma; including military might &lpar;AP&rpar;"&sol;><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Barack Obama insisted he was considering every intervention option in Libya&comma; including military might&comma; along with America&&num;8217&semi;s allies&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>And he sent a message to Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi&comma; declaring&colon; &&num;8220&semi;Step down from power and leave&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Wary that Libya&&num;8217&semi;s bloody crisis could become a humanitarian disaster&comma; the US president made clear he had not ruled out establishing a no-fly zone to prevent Gaddafi&&num;8217&semi;s air forces from bombing rebels&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr Obama&&num;8217&semi;s broad assurance came a day after his defence chief Robert Gates said bluntly that a no-fly zone would amount to an act of war and warned about too much &&num;8220&semi;loose talk&&num;8221&semi; of US military intervention in Libya&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;I don&&num;8217&semi;t want us hamstrung&comma;&&num;8221&semi; Mr Obama said in defending his approach&period; But the president also made clear he did not intend to act without the consent of international peers and that the emphasis of the US was on helping refugees&comma; heading off a humanitarian crisis and hastening the end of Gaddafi&&num;8217&semi;s reign&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;There is a danger of a stalemate that&comma; over time&comma; could be bloody&comma;&&num;8221&semi; Mr Obama said during an appearance with visiting Mexican president Felipe Calderon&period; &&num;8220&semi;And that is something that we&&num;8217&semi;re obviously considering&period; So what I want to make sure of is&comma; is that the US has full capacity to act&comma; potentially rapidly&comma; if the situation deteriorated in such a way that you had a humanitarian crisis on our hands&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>But in the Libyan capital Tripoli&comma; Gaddafi vowed to &&num;8220&semi;fight until the last man and woman&&num;8221&semi; and lashed out at Europe and the US for their pressure on him to step down&comma; warning that thousands of Libyans would die if US and Nato forces intervened in the conflict&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The Libyan uprising&comma; part of an upheaval across North Africa and the Middle East&comma; has pitted anti-government protesters against the strongman who has ruled for four decades&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Gaddafi has unleashed a violent crackdown against those seeking his ouster&comma; drawing international condemnation and sanctions&period; Hundreds have been killed&comma; perhaps more&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Trying to impose pressure&comma; but with only so much leverage&comma; Mr Obama suggested that Gaddafi loyalists should switch sides in support of the revolutionaries&period; &&num;8220&semi;Those around him have to understand that violence that they perpetrate against innocent civilians will be monitored and they will be held accountable for it&comma;&&num;8221&semi; he said&period; 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