Europe's powers headed for a clash over the allied campaign in Libya as foreign ministers from the 27 nation EU went into talks yesterday divided over the initial intervention and a possible Nato role.
"It shouldn't be a war on Libya," said Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini, whose country is one of little more than a third of European Union nations engaged in the three-day old campaign to protect Libyan civilians from Gaddafi.
Italy, a former colonial power in Libya which enjoyed close political and economic ties with Gaddafi and faces a looming exodus of refugees from the vast desert nation, nonetheless joined the alliance after dragging its feet.
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