Friday, March 25, 2011

French fighter aircraft shoot down a Libyan aircraft violating the no-fly zone

Barcelona (Editorial) .- A French fighter shot down a Libyan warplane was violating the air exclusion zone, as reported by ABC News on its website. According to U.S. television, is the first Army airplane Muammar Gaddafi regime that violates the no-fly zone, imposed last Thursday night by the Security Council of the UN.

The incident occurred near the town of Misrata. The news of the fighter plane shot down by the French army came a day after Chief Operating Officer of the British Air Force, the Vice Marshal Greg Bagwell, make sure that the Libyan air force "no longer exists as a fighting force" after the attacks made by the international coalition forces.

The African American Joint Command in Stuttgart, Germany, could not confirm or deny the news that U.S. television. According to ABC, the Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi "the first time today challenged the no-fly zone imposed by U.S. and its allies, and sent a warplane on Misrata, where he was quickly shot down by French fighters." ABC quoted its source as a French military officer and allegedly shot down the plane described as a "Galeb" single engine.

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