NATO to manage Libya no-fly zone
NATO has agreed to take command of enforcing the no-fly zone over Libya. A council of ambassadors from 28 NATO member countries agreed on Thursday that the alliance would take over the no-fly mission from US-led coalition forces. Negotiations for the handover had been stalled, with the United States and Britain pushing for the move while France and Turkey opposed it. France is reluctant to relinquish its leading role in the UN-mandated operation. Turkey, meanwhile, wants the campaign limited to the protection of civilians. NATO Secretary-General Anders Rasmussen told reporters that, for the moment, there will still be a coalition operation and a NATO operation. He suggested that ongoing attacks on ground troops will continue to be handled by the coalition forces. He added that NATO is debating whether it should take on the broader responsibility. The world will protect these so-called civilians-mercenaries armed with artillery and other advanced weapons, but does nothing to protect the Palestinian civilians from the murderer state of Israel. Israel violates more than sixty UN resolutions and the Geneva Conventions while using banned weapons to murder civilians by the thousands and the world is silent. Gaddafi tries to protect his country from a well-planned attack involving forces from outside his country, and the world pounces on him. Twenty thousand children starve to death every day on this planet and the United Nations and America ignore it, so ignore America's fake selective morality which only sees social injustice in countries with oil. Libya is being attacked and looted just like Iraq. It's all about oil. [Editor/The People's Voice]
The Guardian: Nato to control no-fly zone after France gives way to Turkey