French, British and American military forces attack Libya

neko-chan · 2011-03-19T21:15:33-01:00

http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/africa/03/19/libya.civil.war/index.html?hpt=T1&iref=BN1 French, British and American military forces made good Saturday on international warnings to Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, using fighter jets and cruise missiles to hammer military positions in the first phase of an operation that will include enforcement of a no-fly zone. More than 110 Tomahawk missiles fired from American and British ships and submarines hit about 20 Libyan air and missile defense targets in western portions of the country, U.S. Vice Adm. William Gortney said at a Pentagon briefing. The U.S. will conduct a damage assessment of the sites, which include SA-5 missiles and communications facilities. A senior U.S. military official, who was not authorized to speak on the record, said the missiles landed near Misrata and Tripoli, the capital and Gadhafi's stronghold. The salvo, in an operation dubbed "Odyssey Dawn," was meant "to deny the Libyan regime from using force against its own people," said Gortney, who declined to detail future operations. Earlier, French fighter jets deployed over Libya fired at a military vehicle Saturday, the country's first strike against Gadhafi's military forces, which earlier attacked the rebel stronghold of Benghazi. [...] Earlier Saturday, Gadhafi issued defiant messages to international powers. "I have all the Libyan people with me and I'm prepared to die. And they are prepared to die for me. Men, women and even children," Gadhafi said in a letter addressed to Obama and read to reporters by a government spokesman in Tripoli. Obama, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Gortney used the term "unique capabilities" to describe the U.S. part of the coalition effort. Officials have said American military forces are meant to augment Arab, European and other Western troops -- but not take a lead role. It looks like Gadhafi's fate is sealed. I find it interesting as well that France, Britain, and the Arab League are taking the lead in this situation - most notably France. They've been the most active and even were the first to use military action. The US government seems content to just follow the lead of its allies and provide muscle where ever it is needed.

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Legendary_Dollci

13 years ago

Tegumi wrote...

neko-chan wrote...

The US is the most powerful nation on earth thus it must maintain the most powerful nation on Earth until the blight of War no longer exist.

Peace maintained by force is always a boiling kettle.

I gotta agree on that....
Most of the countries peace are INDEED maintained by that.....

Oh and about that comment on oil...
If a land runs out of resources they go to other places to find it....
and if that place where the resources are located are blocked from outside places ( which means people don't wanna give it away) then a land will use any force necessary to obtain this resource for a countries survival....
This HAS and ALWAYS been a number one rule since ancient time.

Scarface

13 years ago

Gadhafi's dead. But hell, the reports are too inconsistent.

http://news.yahoo.com/gadhafi-libyas-leader-42-years-killed-143212662.html

Gravity cat the adequately amused

13 years ago

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-15397812

Apparently Gaddafi's dead now?

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