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NATO jets unleash attacks near Tripoli
 [Iran Press TV] Latest reports say NATO...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the style of the American pants... warplanes have bombed an area southwest of the Libyan capital, Tripoli, despite criticism that such strikes have failed to protect civilians. Libyan military officials told state TV that NATO warplanes dropped bombs on the area of Al-Hira, 50 km southwest of Tripoli on Sunday. The troubled region and its surrounding areas have been constantly targeted by NATO jets over the past weeks. The developments come as Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov recently said that NATO military intervention in oil-rich Libya has gone far beyond the mandate authorized by the United Nations. ...an international organization whose stated aims of facilitating interational security involve making sure that nobody with live ammo is offended unless it's a civilized country... After talks with their NATO counterparts in Berlin on Friday, Lavrov also called for an urgent shift towards a political and diplomatic settlement in Libya. NATO has already been under fire from Libyan opposition forces for not doing enough to protect civilian lives. The head of the opposition's armed forces Gen. Abdul Fattah Younis told news hounds in Benghazi in early April that NATO's inaction has allowed government troops to advance and kill people in Misratah and other cities. Younis also threatened to ask the United Nations Security Council to suspend the NATO mission in Libya if the military alliance does not do "its work properly." He also slammed Western-led forces over the civilian corpse count caused by NATO bombing campaigns in the country. Posted by: Fred 2011-04-18 |
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