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Ajdabiya, Libya - Muammar Gaddafi ground forces took over a strategic oil city Wednesday and moved within striking distance of another major city in the east, near reverse the gains made since the rebel airstrikes began international. The rebels have called for more aid, while a U.S. official said government forces themselves are making it harder to target using civil dre beat headphones"battle wagons" with armament wealth instead of tanks. Western powers kept up the pressure to force Gadhafi with new air strikes in other parts of Libya, the advice they may arm the opposition and intense negotiations behind the scenes to find a country to shelter the head of Libya over 40 years. Also Wednesday, a U.S. official and former U.S. intelligence officer told The Associated Press that CIA agents were sent to Libya this month after the agency station in the capital was forced to close. CIA agents also assisted in the rescue of one of two crewmen of an F-15E Strike Eagle that crashed, they said. They spoke of anonymity because fivefingers of the sensitivity of the information. Even if it points militarily, the Gaddafi regime has suffered a blow to his inner circle with the apparent defection Foreign Minister Moussa Koussa. Koussa flew from Tunisia to an airport outside London and announced he was resigning his post, according to a statement the British government. Ibrahim Musa, a spokesman for the Libyan government in Tripoli has denied that the foreign minister has defected, saying he was in London on a "diplomatic mission". It was not immediately possible to confirm the statement with either foam or people close to him. Gaddafi justice and interior vibram bikila blue 42ministers resigned shortly after the uprising began last month, but Koussa would be the first high-level resignations from the international air beginning of the campaign. Air strikes have neutralized the Air Force Gaddafi and his army defeated, but its ground forces are far better armed, trained and organized than the opposition. The shift back to the side of government is hardening to the United States that the opposition is probably ill-equipped unable to win without a decisive West intervention - a non-aggression all American military forces on the plan or a decision to arm the rebels. In Washington, congressional Republicans and Democrats peppered with senior issues on how long the U.S. will be involved in Libya, transaction costs and if foreign countries arm the rebels. NATO takes control of air strikes, which began as an operation under U.S. command. Diplomats said they gave their approval for the Operation Commander of NATO, Canada General Charles Bouchard, to announce a transfer on Thursday. Intelligence experts told the CIA that were sent to Libya had been in contact with the opposition and assessed the strength of rebel forces and needs if Obama decided to arm them. The New York Times first reported that the CIA had sent operatives and that British agents were conducting air strikes. Qaddafi's forces have adopted a new tactic in light of the hammering that air strikes have given their tanks and armored vehicles, a senior American intelligence official. They some of these weapons left behind in favor of a "flock" of "battle cars": mini-vans, sedans and SUVs equipped with weapons, said the official, who spoke anonymously in to discuss sensitive U.S. intelligence on the status and capabilities of the rebel forces and the regime. Rebel fighters have also said that Gaddafi's troops have been increasingly using civilians vehicles in the battle. The change not only is it harder to distinguish the forces of the rebels Gaddafi also requires less logistics support, the official said. The official said air strikes have degraded the strength of Qaddafi since their launch on March 19, but the regime's forces even surpass those of the opposition "by far", and some members of the military have deserted Gaddafi recently. The disparity is obvious that government forces pushed the rebels about 100 miles (160 kilometers) in just two days. The rebels were closing in on the strategic town of Sirte, Gaddafi's hometown and a stronghold of support for the longtime leader, but under heavy shelling they retired Ben Jawwad on Tuesday and the oil port of Ras Lanouf Wednesday. Qaddafi's forces were shelling Brega, another important oil town east of Ras Lanuf. East of the city in Ajdabiya, where many insurgents have regrouped, Colonel Abdullah Hadi said he Loyalists should enter Brega here Wednesday night. "I ask NATO for a single aircraft to repel them. All we need is air cover and we could do. They should help us," said Hadi. The battlefield setbacks are hardened to the United States that the opposition is probably incapable of winning without the decisive intervention of the West, a senior U.S. intelligence told the Associated Press, speaking on condition of anonymity. Obama's director of national intelligence, James Clapper, against rebel forces in a "team basketball pick-up." Gaddafi also forces laid landmines in the eastern suburbs of Adjabiya, an area which was held from March 17 to Saturday, when airstrikes drove them west, as Human Rights Watch. The group based in New York quoted the director of electricity to eastern Libya, Minam Abdal al-Shanti, who said two landmines exploded a truck on them, but nobody was injured. Al-Shanti said a civil defense team have found and disarmed more than 50 mines in this Human Rights Watch described as a very crowded area. NATO planes flew over the area where the heaviest fighting was under way Wednesday morning and an Associated Press reporter at the scene heard explosions, but it was known whether air strikes had hit the region. U.S. Marine Corps Capt. Clint Gebke, a spokesman for the NATO operation aboard the USS Mount Whitney, said he could not confirm the specific strikes but that Western aircraft engaged the forces pro-Gaddafi especially in the areas of Sirte and Misrata, exclusion of the rebels in the west of the last significant Libya. Retirement Wednesday looked like a mad: Trucks with mattresses and boxes equal, driving at 100 mph (160 kph). And as the fighting approached Ajdabiya, residents there was an exodus of staff. The road to the rebels' de facto capital, Benghazi, was packed with vehicles, most full of families and their belongings. Streets on the west side of Ajdabiya were deserted and silent. Rebel military spokesman Col. Ahmad Bani, the rebels had made a "tactical retreat" from Ajdabiya and set up defensive positions there. "Even with courage and determination, the forces must be able to fight, "he said. Bani said he had heard from three sources, one in Chad, from 3200 to 3600 that heavily armed members of the Chadian presidential guard were marching towards the Sirte Ajdabiya. The report could not be independently confirmed. While the forces pushing the rebels toward Gaddafi in Benghazi, some 140 miles (220 kilometers) north of Brega, pressure is growing for NATO members and other supporters of the air campaign to do more. Prime Minister David Cameron said Britain finds a legal loophole could allow countries to supply arms to rebels in Libya - but stressed the United Kingdom has not yet decided whether provide assistance to the rebels. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Tuesday that Washington also believes it would be legal to give weapons of the rebels. "No decision has been made about providing arms to the opposition or groups in Libya," said White House press secretary Jay Carney. "We do not exclude it or decision it " NATO officials and diplomats from the alliance had not considered arming the rebels. Any participation alliance needs the support of all 28 members, a difficult task, and an official alliance that could not be appointed under standing orders from NATO said "would not even consider doing something else," without a new UN resolution. China, Russia and Germany oppose the provision of arms to rebels. Under the UN resolution authorizing the necessary measures to protect civilians, countries supplying arms should be satisfied, they would be used only to defend civilians - Do not take the offensive forces of Gaddafi. Chinese President Hu Jintao said the operation had already gone too far. He called for a cease-fire and urged French President Nicolas Sarkozy at a diplomatic conference meeting in Beijing. Hu called for peaceful efforts to restore stability, expressed China's concern that Libya can regain divided and this force would only complicate a negotiated solution Regulation. The diplomats tried to persuade Gaddafi to leave without military force. Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini said negotiations about securing the release of Qaddafi were held with "discretion" and that there were options on the table who had not yet been formalized. "What is essential is that there are countries that are ready to welcome Gaddafi and his family, obviously to end this situation which otherwise could continue for some time," he said. But the Italian diplomat insisted immunity Gaddafi was not an option. Uganda became the first country to offer refuge public Gaddafi. The spokesman for the president of Uganda, Tamale Mirundi, told the AP Wednesday that he would accommodate. Qadhafi has shown no public sign that he might step down, vowing to fight until the end. His forces were continuing to besiege Misrata, exclusion of the rebels Main West. Misrata activist said headphones beats monster beat by dre dre dre beats headphones beats dre headphones beats by dre headphone dre beats headphone headphone beats by drethere were power outages, and water service was turned off so that residents rely on wells, but the biggest problem was a lack of medical care supplies such as anesthesia and sterilization, as well as diapers and milk for babies. Four locals were killed Tuesday, said the activist. Libyan officials took journalists to the house of a family who said their 18-month son was killed in an air strike Tuesday morning against an ammunition dump in the Khorum mountain village, 55 miles (90 kilometers) south of Tripoli. They say their house was hit by a missile lost when the dump was hit. Their account could not be independently confirmed. British diplomats and others have been involved in negotiations with rebel leaders in Benghazi. Cameron, spokesman Steve Field said it was partly to assess whether the opposition be trustworthy allies - "learn more about their intentions." Commander of NATO, Admiral of the Navy James Stavridis, told officials saw "flashes" of possible al-Qaida and Hezbollah's involvement with rebel forces. Bani The rebel military spokesman, denied accusations that elements of al-Qaida are fighting with the rebels. "If there are elements who were with al-Qaida in the past and are now in Libya, they are now fighting for Libya, not to al-Qaeda," he said, emphasizing the word "if." ___ Associated Press writers Ben Hubbard in Benghazi, Hadeel al-Shalchi in Tripoli, Robert Burns in Washington, David Stringer in London, Slobodan Lekic in Brussels, Angela Charlton in Paris, Godfrey Olukya in Kampala, Uganda, and Christopher Bodeen in Beijing contributed to this report.