Libyan No-Fly Zone in Place, U.S. Says

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Libyan No-Fly Zone in Place, U.S. Says

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Libyans in Benghazi celebrate on a tank Sunday that had belonged to the forces of Moammar Gadhafi and was destroyed by NATO planes.

As a NATO-led international effort to “protect the Libyan people” enters its second day, the U.S. says its no-fly zone is now in place while Russia and the Arab League have condemned the joint attack.

Also, Libyan state TV reports that 48 civilians are dead after allied military strikes, while Britain’s Foreign Office says “Unlike Gadhafi, the coalition is not attacking civilians.”

The Guardian’s blog is an excellent source for up-to-the-minute news on the civil war in Libya. —JCL

The Guardian:

6.13pm: The Foreign Office has released a statement in response to criticism of the bombardment of Libya by the Arab League Secretary General Amr Moussa, who said that the organisation wanted to see “the protection of civilians and not the bombardment of more civilians”.

The Foreign Office said:

Unlike Qadhafi, the coalition is not attacking civilians. The UN resolution authorises all necessary measures to protect the Libyan people.

For the No Fly Zone to be enforced safely, it is necessary to carry out carefully targeted operations against Libyan air defence capabilities.

All missions are meticulously planned to ensure every care is taken to avoid civilian casualties. We will continue to work with our Arab partners to enforce the resolution for the good of the Libyan people.

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By Blackspeare, March 21, 2011 at 9:22 am Link to this comment

It appears that those Arab countries who had asked for a no-fly zone over Libya and joined the coalition are now having second thoughts saying the mandate has gone beyond it’s intent. I can only imagine Mohammed (blessed be his name) spinning in his grave.
It is quite obvious that those Arab countries only wanted a no-fly zone not an open mandate for other military action. By the time the USA, UK, and France finish testing their weapons and guidance systems, Libya will be ready to be repaved!

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By Restaurants Delhi, March 21, 2011 at 6:59 am Link to this comment
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But I don,t know if libya public want that democracy then what is problem. Why ruler don,t agree.

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By PatrickHenry, March 20, 2011 at 7:44 pm Link to this comment

Yhe Libyan no fly zone should be called the kill everything in sight zone.

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By Jim Yell, March 20, 2011 at 4:15 pm Link to this comment
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Moammar Gadhafi is a terrorist and has always been. He has been kept in power by his control of Libyan Oil and disregard for the people. It is difficult for the people to change the government when the leader is a sociopath and murderous to boot.

We should see that the rebels have plenty of weapons and ammunition, but we won’t because the Oil Imperitive is to secure supply and at the best profit for Corporate America International.

People should fight for their rights and freedom and the specticle of Iraqi and how stupid our response and involvement there has certainly given pause to what we now do in Libya. At lest this time we actually have attacked an international terrorist.

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By TDoff, March 20, 2011 at 4:02 pm Link to this comment

It’s not PC to come right out in public in the Good Ol’ U S of A and question our ‘christian’ ‘god’s’ existence or sanity. But every once in a while it seems reasonable to doubt at least his/her/it’s omniscience and prescience, when you wonder WTF the intent was when ‘god’ caused all those dinosaurs to die and be buried under the sands in Iraq, Iran, Libya, Saudi Arabia et.al., so the rest of the world now has to kiss Arab a** or fight-them-to-the-death or pay them exorbitant ransom. Just so we don’t have to walk down to the supermarket to buy our food and booze.
Or, ‘god’ forbid, you don’t ‘spose the Arab ‘god’ is smarter or tougher or stronger than our ‘god’.....?

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By TDoff, March 20, 2011 at 3:34 pm Link to this comment

Geez, we better hope that NATO and the US government have enough sense to complete the Iraq, Afghan, and Libyan wars before they start attacking the rest of the Arab League and Russia. Otherwise, we could get so stretched-thin that we’ll snap. And we’d have to transfer all our publicly-employed school teachers into the armed forces in order to save enough money to fight the wars, and have enough warriors to do the job.

I guess we could start a WWII-like War Bond program, and try to get all our used-to-go-to-school kids to invest in government War Bonds with their piggy-bank money, instead of letting their unemployed parents use it for food.

I guess we shouldn’t worry about all this stuff, after all, we’re just doing ‘god’s’ work, and we just gotta keep the ‘faith’ that ‘god’ knows what he/she/it is doing.

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