Divisive Cotton
Now I just have my toy soldiers
The first shot has been fired from a French plane - 4.45pm.
Fired at moving vehicle
Fired at moving vehicle
Libya - civil unrest & now NATO involvement
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Where's that from?
Ah ok (am on a train).
spawnofsatan
Down by the river
Divisive Cotton
Now I just have my toy soldiers
on Al-Jaz they were commenting on why Libyan forces don't like fighting at night.
It seems that they don't have any kit for such action and France refused to sell them any night vision equipment in 2007
Can modern aircraft bomb at night? If so surely that has to be the idea time to strike
It seems that they don't have any kit for such action and France refused to sell them any night vision equipment in 2007
Can modern aircraft bomb at night? If so surely that has to be the idea time to strike
weltweit
Well-Known Member
I don't know, but Apache helicopters can operate at night.
From the news:
US missile attack on Libya prepared
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/top/all/7480614.html
elbows
Well-Known Member
Attacks due to start after dark tonight is something thats been mentioned a few times on twitter, but I'll wait and see.
weltweit
Well-Known Member
I wonder if Gaddafi is removed from power, whether then we might finally learn of the truth behind Pan Am 103 and the 259 passengers and crew who were killed in the bomb.
Libya rebel leader: I have evidence Gaddafi ordered Lockerbie
The former Libya justice minister says he has documents that implicate Colonel Gaddafi personally in the Lockerbie bombing.
weltweit
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weltweit
Well-Known Member
And, would you like Gaddafi to take Benghazi and hang all the rebels by the neck as well?
likesfish
You can't park here sir
libyan kit probably can't see much at night.
modern jets can do all sorts of hi tech stuff night in a desert is perfect conditions for night vison gear its very cold anything moving or people is very hot and theirs no cover
seen what an apache can do to 500plus men caught in the open. its a video game slaughterfestand that was 20 plus years ago.
modern jets can do all sorts of hi tech stuff night in a desert is perfect conditions for night vison gear its very cold anything moving or people is very hot and theirs no cover
seen what an apache can do to 500plus men caught in the open. its a video game slaughterfest
and that was 20 plus years ago.
Andrew Hertford
Chocolate Jesus
You've got to admire the French, they were right about Iraq and they're right about Libya.
Deareg
Well-Known Member
Are you really that green that you think we are doing this for the benefit of the Libyans?
dylans
overlord of all acorns
You don't have to be pro Gaddafi to oppose Western intervention. I opposed the invasion of Iraq, does that make me pro Saddam? No. If Saddam today was facing a revolution of the Iraqi people I would support that revolution. Overthrowing Gaddafi is the task of the Libyan people not NATO.
dylans
overlord of all acorns
Was France right a couple of months ago when they offered to send French riot police to Tunisia to help Ben Ali.?
gentlegreen
I hummus, therefore I am ...
To be fair, Alliot-Marie may have done that off her own bat ...
weltweit
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Go on then, illuminate me, what would you have the United Nations do?
krtek a houby
Merry Xmas!
Libya will remember your valour and bravery
weltweit
Well-Known Member
UN, not Nato ... anyhow, the Libyan people are not up to defeating Gaddafi without help. Would you deny them the help they need? It seems from what you have written you would.
If Gaddafi manages to take Benghazi, which without the enforcement of the UN resolution he would it seems definately do, then the rebels are toast. The revolt is over - full stop!
krtek a houby
Merry Xmas!
^ this
Deareg
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Mind there own fucking business or at least first deal with far more grievous cases of human rights abuses that ARE actually occurring in other countries. And if they are so worried about Gaddafy's regime why did they send British police out to train his police not so long ago? Or sign trade agreements with him?
By the way you never answered my question. Do you really believe that this is being done for the benefit of the Libyan people?
weltweit
Well-Known Member
No, you don't get off that lightly. What would you have the UN do about the civil war right now in Libya in which the Gaddafi regime is slaughtering its opponents and the rebels are asking for outside help?
What previous governments have sanctioned in respect of the Gaddafi regime, including training and BP oil deals and releasing Abdel Bassett Ali Al Megrahi, is history, what the UN allies have to deal with is what is happening today, now.
This is being done by the international community under the auspices of the UN, for the benefit of the Libyan people, to balance the forces in favour of the rebels, and to rid the Libyan people and the region of a much hated dictator.
newbie
undisambiguated
perhaps what makes this different to other places is that Gadaffi has no allies. After all his decades in power there was no-one at the UN to argue his case.
Even a slave regime like Burma has allies who can prevent concerted UN action.
Lol
goldenecitrone
post tenebras lux
Hope they blow the fuck out of Gaddafi and his regime quickly and leave the Libyans to start afresh.
Lol 2
gentlegreen
I hummus, therefore I am ...
Did I hear a report that the rebels may have shot down their own plane ? 
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