Ghadafi's compound attacked

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Ghadafi's compound attacked
People acting as human shields at airport
Mike Lloyd/John Ackermann Mar 21, 2011 06:41:04 AM
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TRIPOLI, LIBYA (NEWS1130) - As air strikes pound targets in Libya, supporters of Moammar Ghadafi are gathering at airports to act as human shields.

The strikes started Saturday and have reportedly heavily damaged Libya's air defenses.  But Ghadafi has remained defiant.  "We even trained the women to fight, to carry weapons and use arms."

The human shields appear to be aimed at discouraging the coalition from bombing some targets.  The coalition is currently being led by the US.  Britain aborted one of its bombing missions overnight over fears of hitting civilians.

There are still many questions about how long this assault will last, the US says it will be days rather than weeks.

Coalition fighter jets have stopped a line of tanks advancing on rebels in Benghazi.  No one knows where Ghadafi is after a surprise cruise missile strike flattened a building at his command centre in Tripoli.

The US and UK say Ghadafi is not a target.

Six Canadian CF-18 fighters are in Italy awaiting instructions and have yet to take part in the air strikes.

The West not making friends

Air strikes are one thing but SFU's Andre Gerolymatos feels ground troops may be needed to stabilize Libya and ultimately force Ghadafi from power.

He also warns the West isn't making many friends among Arab leaders.

"This might turn into a full scale crisis within the Arab world because of the Arab League.  There are rumours they're not happy with how events are unfolding with respect to the fly zone because it is more than a fly zone.  It also involves airplanes hitting ground targets."

He adds the UN resolution doesn't exclude using ground forces.  "It only excludes an occupation force and if they see that they're not getting anywhere, are they willing to just drop it and go away?  I don't think so.  They're going to get rid of Gadhafi one way or the other."

Gerolymatos admits the Arab League is an ineffectual group composed of some of the world's worst rulers, including Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, and Yemen regimes dealing with their own popular uprisings.

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A map of Libya

BiscottiGelato

Cheap tactic to try to murder Gaddafi.

I'm sure by now, more Libyan people, military or civillian, have been killed by the Western Coalition, than by Ghadafi by now....

Disgusting invasion, digusting propganda, disgusting use of my tax money.

daimo

Cheap tactic to try to murder Gaddafi.

Disgusting invasion, digusting propganda, disgusting use of my tax money.
BiscottiGelato 發表於 2011-3-21 15:06

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lo_pak

Don't know how well and how long the joint mission will last without the leadership of the States, many uncertainties... But one thing for sure, there will be more casualties...

What's the goal for the mission? Keeping the rebels alive? Get rid of Ghadaft? Or something else...

BiscottiGelato

Don't know how well and how long the joint mission will last without the leadership of the States, m ...
lo_pak 發表於 2011-3-21 15:26

Whether it be keeping the rebels pushing, (alive means they will attack Ghadafi). Or directly eliminating the Ghadafi regime. The result is the same. It will be a western controlled so called 'democratic' regime. With Chinese/Russian investment booted out, and replaced with Western oil investments.  

It's perfectly legit to raise war for your own interest. But the propaganda, and the way the public at large is buying the propaganda... is simply disgusting... Worse in that my tax dollar is at work for this cause with little to no benefit to Canada (other than honing US/UK/Canadian relationships).