Libyan rebels welcome air strikes, no ground troops

BENGHAZI, Libya, March 21 (Reuters) - Libyan rebels welcome more air strikes by foreign forces against Muammar Gaddafi's army but do not want foreign ground troops to intervene in the war, a rebel spokesman said on Monday.

"The committee rejects foreign troops on the ground but we encourage the bombardment of Gaddafi's army," Ahmed El-Hasi, a spokesman for the February 17 opposition coalition, said in the eastern city of Benghazi.

The rebels' aim was still to capture the capital Tripoli, but they wanted to achieve that without foreign offensive action, he told a news briefing.

(Reporting by Angus MacSwan, Editing by Sonya Hepinstall)