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Posted by seumasach on March 23, 2011
“Perversely, Odyssey Dawn is laying the groundwork for the partition of Libya. Balkanization looms.”
That is exactly what it is designed to do – end the national- democratic revolution.
Pepe Escobar
Asia Times
24th March, 2011
Odyssey Dawn, at least for now, is the first United States Africom war. The Pentagon, via Vice Admiral Bill Gortney, dispelled any doubts as he stressed that the “leading edge” is American. Homer is played by General Carter Ham, out of his headquarters in Stuttgart, Germany (no African country bothered to host Africom). And Ulysses – in what looks and sounds more like an Iliad than an Odyssey – is commander of Joint Task Force Odyssey Dawn Admiral Sam Locklear, on board USS Mount Whitney somewhere in the Mediterranean
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Posted by smeddum on March 22, 2011
Tuesday Mar 22 2011
Germany has pulled out of NATO operations in the Mediterranean due to the disagreement over the forces’ mission in Libya.
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Posted by seumasach on March 22, 2011
Washington Post
21st March, 2011
Discord erupted Monday in Europe over whether the military operation in Libya should be controlled by NATO, after Turkey blocked the alliance’s participation while Italy issued a veiled threat to withdraw the use of its bases unless the alliance was put in charge.
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Posted by seumasach on March 22, 2011
The inevitable NATO strategy of bombing from a safe distance with “high precision” munitions is not a laughing matter but there is a marked element of farce to all this. Hopefully, the cracks in NATO will now become wide open and “the West” will be reduced to its rump, the US-UK-Israel axis.
22nd March, 2011
CRACKS have appeared in the international coalition set up to enforce the no-fly zone over Libya after Nato refused to take control of the operation from the United States.
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Posted by seumasach on March 21, 2011
PressTV
21st March, 2011
The Ministry of Defence’s (MoD) highly trained units, known as “Smash” teams, have been commissioning reconnaissance missions inside the North African country to report the location of Libyan airfields, supply routes, radar stations and anti-aircraft defense batteries, the Daily Mailreported.
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Posted by seumasach on March 21, 2011
Telegraph
21st March, 2011
They said that the “indiscriminate” bombing raids went further than the no-fly zone agreed by the United Nations as a way of preventing Col Gaddafi’s attacks on rebel forces, and risked harming civilians.
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Posted by seumasach on March 21, 2011
RIANovosti
21st March, 2011
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Monday criticized the UN Security Council resolution on Libya for allowing foreign military intervention in a sovereign state.
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Posted by seumasach on March 21, 2011
Chris Floyd
Empire Burlesque
When the UN intervention into Libya was first announced, we immediately heard how the United States would not be in the forefront of the military action; the lead would be taken by other nations, with US acting largely as a supplier and facilitator for the “broad-based coalition” arrayed against Libya (including some real live Ay-rabs! as the interventionists enthusiastically noted.) But it took less than two days to give the lie to this claim.
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Posted by seumasach on March 21, 2011
Is Libya another Iraq gone wrong
Al-Ahram
21st March, 2011
Operation Odyssey Dawn and the launch of the so-called “limited military action” on the Gaddafi regime in Libya are proceeding with official regional approval and an uneasy popular consent.
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Posted by seumasach on March 20, 2011
“What is even more worrying is the fact that David Cameron ignored my request, in the House of Commons … for assurance that cluster bombs and depleted uranium weapons would not be used,” he added. “This is not peace. Let there be no mistake. This is war.”
Anti-war groups protest against anti-Gaddafi air strikes
Guardian
20th March, 2011
Shouting “Hands off Libya” and waving placards stating “The lessons of Iraq and Afghanistan have not been learnt”, a small but passionate group of anti-war protesters made their stand outside Downing Street.
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Posted by seumasach on March 20, 2011
RIANovosti
20th March, 2011
Russia urges western nations to stop the indiscriminate use of force in Libya, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Sunday.
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