Monday, March 21, 2011

The international alliance against Gaddafi war begins

Barcelona (Editorial and agencies) .- By nightfall the French aircraft have launched attacks against targets of the forces of Muammar Qaddafi who then have joined U.S. and British forces, the latter not to aircraft, but missile bombardment from ships deployed in the Mediterranean. The operation has already been named: Dawn Odyssey.

In particular, U.S. Vice Adm. Bill Gortney has indicated that the ships and submarines of the United States and Britain have launched more than 110 Tomahawk missiles against 20 targets in Libyan territory as "first phase of a phased military operation designed to implement the resolution United Nations remove the Libyan regime's ability to use force against its own people.

" Of French and British attacks are known less detail. Paris reported the first attacks allowed destroying several tanks and armored vehicles. Al Jazeera sources have reported that this particular four tanks destroyed southwest of the city of Benghazi, the second largest city in the hands of the rebels but besieged by the forces of Gaddafi.

"The first goal has been achieved and destroyed," said the press spokesman of the French Defense Ministry, Laurent Teisseire. This attack, the first of the allied forces began at 17.45 CET Spanish. With regard to British forces, was the prime minister himself, David Cameron, who has confirmed that he had British presence on Libyan territory.

"Tonight, British forces are in action on Libya," said Cameron, who described the military action backed by the UN as "necessary, lawful and proper." Stopping air defenses The main objective of the first operations of Dawn Odyssey is void the anti-aircraft forces Gaddafi, mainly in the cities of Tripoli and Misrata, Vice Admiral Gortney indicated.

This may carry out attacks using unmanned aircraft. "We are at the tip of the wedge Miltia coalition operation," said Gortney. "This is just the first phase, which lasts about 12 hours. The Admiral said in a news conference that U.S. operations are concentrated in the western part of Libya.

Most of missiles "with more than 20 integrated air defense systems and other defense facilities," he said. After the damage is assessed using the Global Hawk unmanned aircraft. Coalition troops involved in the United States, France, UK, Canada and Italy under the command of General Carter Ham, the head of U.S.

military Africa Command. Later, the coalition will join several Arab countries, explained one U.S. military source on condition of anonymity. In total there are 25 coalition ships in the Mediterranean, including three U.S. submarines armed with Tomahawk missiles. Also includes five U.S.

aircraft vigilacia. While the war continues, the Libyan leader, Muammar Gaddafi, will address the nation tonight in a speech televised by the state to discuss the attack of the enemy crossed. " This attack has also served to alcazar mitigates air base, located on the outskirts of Tripoli, as reported by the pan-Arab Al Jazeera television.

This database is used primarily for flights to figures from the regime. The U.S. president, Barack Obama, announced that "we can not sit still when a tyrant tells his people he will not have mercy." Under Bush, "we respond to the calls of the Libyan population and protect the interests of the United States and the world" with this action.

"I am well aware," says Obama, risk that this initiative entails. " The U.S. president said that U.S. troops never set foot Libyan soil. EE. UU. has assumed the coordination of the air exclusion zone. The U.S. Central Command (USCENTCOM) is responsible for coordinating the operation, according to Britain's Sky News.

"We are prepared to act quickly" to protect the Libyan people to attack the regime of Muammar Gaddafi, said the U.S. president, Barack Obama. The commander of the Sixth Fleet in the United States in Europe, Vice Admiral Harry B. Harris Jr., will be responsible for coordinating the international coalition to intervene in Libya to establish no-fly zone, as reported by Efe Spanish government sources French Rafale fighter aircraft are now flying "across the Libyan territory, as reported by French military sources.

In particular would the city of Benghazi to enforce no-fly zone approved by the UN, according to French television BFM. The Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, has also confirmed the participation of Spain in the offensive against Gaddafi. The coalition will provide a tanker aircraft, four F18, a frigate, a submarine and surveillance aircraft.

The French president has said the Libyan leader had "underestimated" the warnings of the international community, therefore, everyone who attended the emergency meeting in Paris have agreed to the implementation of UN resolution by which a impodrá fly zone. At the moment we know that the intervention will be divided into three waves of attacks.

The first will be carried out by Britain, France and Canada, although the latter has announced that it needs two days to move their aircraft to the area. Then the U.S. will intervene. UU .. The last phase of the intervention on the ground, will lead the Arab countries. The emergency meeting convened in Paris has started just after 13:00 hours in the presence of more than two dozen world leaders, including Prime Minister, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero.

Zapatero and Sarkozy were accompanied, among others, Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, British Prime Minister, David Cameron, the High Representative for Foreign Policy of the European Union, Catherine Ashton, the Chairman of the European Union, Herman Van Rompuy, and the United Nations secretary general, Ban Ki Moon.

Before the start of the meeting, Clinton, Cameron and Sarkozy held a meeting behind closed doors, around at 12.30 am, according to Reuters.

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