Libyan rebels take border post, await US drones

MISRATA, Libya: Libyan rebels fighting Muammar al-Gaddafi were set to receive a boost from NATO, with the United States deploying unmanned armed drones as France, Britain and Italy send military advisers.  US President Barack Obama authorised deployment of missile-carrying drone warplanes over Libya "because of the humanitarian situation," US Defence Secretary Robert Gates said Thursday.  Libyan rebels, who on Thursday overran a post on the Tunisian border to mark their first advance in weeks against Gaddafi's forces, have complained that civilians are being killed in places like Misrata. " Our houses are being hit by bombs and rockets," said 45-year-old Ibrahim Issa Abu Hajjar, who fled Misrata with hundreds of civilians aboard a Turkish ferry that docked Thursday in the eastern rebel stronghold of Benghazi. " We want the allies to stop Gaddafi's forces from taking the city."...