Posted by seumasach on March 23, 2011
23rd March, 2011
Libyan cities on Tuesday witnessed clashes between Libyan forces and protesters leading to the killing of scores of people, while Staff of the French Army announced that it would start its first mission in the Libyan atmosphere launched from its aircraft carrier, Charles de Gaulle.
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Posted by seumasach on March 23, 2011
“This is, therefore, not a NATO operation, even if it must be able to rely on military planning and intervention capacities of the Alliance,” Juppe said.
Compromise emerges for NATO role in Libya fight
22nd March, 2011
A compromise is emerging that would see NATO take a key role in the military operation in Libya guided by a political committee of foreign ministers from the West and the Arab world.
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Posted by seumasach on March 23, 2011
22nd March, 2011
Turkish Parliament Speaker Mehmet Ali Sahin said March 22 that countries leading the UN Security Council resolution should pay attention to the fact that military action in Libya by the western coalition hit civilians, Anatolia news agency reported. He said NATO would hold an important meeting March 22 and that Turkey, who’s objections on the issue are right, was following developments carefully. Turkish State Minister and Chief Negotiator for EU talks, Egemen Bagis said a European leader began his election campaign by organizing a meeting that led to air strikes against Libya. Bagis added that the leader acted before a NATO decision, and that the act was based on his subjective evaluation of a United Nations resolution.
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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
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 seumasach on March 22, 2011
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.
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Posted by seumasach on March 21, 2011
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
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
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
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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