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2011-03-24 Africa North

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Posted by Fred 2011-03-24 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 "Should NOT risk their lives"

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* DEBKA > THE LIBYA NO-FLY ZONE RUNS [winds] DOWN: JUST SIX WARPLANES ALOFT, oer Libyuh now at any one time since imposition of NFZ, start of Allied-Coalition airstrikes.

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* PEOPLE'S DAILY FORUM > LIBYA: UK ROYAL NAVY RUNNING SHORT OF TOMAHAWK MISSLES [used 1/5th of their stockpile in support of NFZ Airstrikes].

* SAME > MI5: [Pro-Gaddafi = Anti-Coalition?]LIBYAN EXPATS PLOT TERROR ATTACKS ON UK STREETS.

* SAME > [UK] RAF HALTS ITS ATTACK AFTER TROOPS SPOT HUMAN SHIELDS.

* SAME > LIMITATIONS KEEP [US F-22]RAPTORS ON SIDELINES IN LIBYA [Air = NFZ]CAMPAIGN, as compared to F-15E Strike Eagles + Other.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2011-03-24 01:39|| 2011-03-24 01:39|| Front Page Top

#2 Methinks that Gardiner should look at a map and make a quick weekend holiday trip to Lockerbee.

To say that Libya is not in the UK's sphrere of influence is almost breathtaking in its ignorance, not to mention it automatically nominates him for a position on Obama's cabinet.

Posted by Bill Clinton 2011-03-24 10:46|| 2011-03-24 10:46|| Front Page Top

#3 "North Africa is not in our court. It is not our direct sphere of influence. Libya poses no direct threat on the United Kingdom," he argues.

"No direct threat on the U.K?" That is naive. Ghadaffi is a threat to anyone who opposes him.

Posted by JohnQC 2011-03-24 11:43|| 2011-03-24 11:43|| Front Page Top

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