Sarkozy tells Libyan rebels: “We will help you”

Muammar Gaddafi

PARIS/MISRATA, Libya, (Reuters) – France promised  Libyan rebels yesterday it would intensify air strikes on  Muammar Gaddafi’s forces and send military liaison officers to  help them as fighting raged in Misrata, killing nine civilians.

Rebels said they fought Gaddafi’s forces for control of a  main road in the besieged port city of 300,000, the insurgents’  last bastion in the west of the country where civil war erupted  in February over demands for an end to Gaddafi’s 41-year rule.

Seven Libyan civilians, a Ukrainian doctor and a British  photojournalist were killed in the course of heavy fighting  between pro-government troops and