Sunday, March 27, 2011

Operation Dawn Odyssey: The complex operation of the allies on African soil

Odyssey Dawn. " Only the name of the operation of the allies in Libya to stop the dictator Moammar Gadhafi has been controversial. Odyssey "at dawn? "Dawn of the odyssey? Dawn Odyssey was finally baptized. And, indeed, the action of the 'coalition of Paris' in the North African country being a succession of adventures.

On 17 March the Security Council United Nations at its 6498 meeting, adopted resolution 1973, giving 'green light' to 'protect civilians and civilian areas that are under amanaza of attack on the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, but excluding the use of a foreign occupation force. " For this purpose, established "a ban on all flights in the airspace" in Libya.

Two days later, French President Nicolas Sarkozy took the reins of the operations of the Allies, announced in Paris. At that time French fighter jets flew over Benghazi (the rebel capital, besieged by the troops of Gaddafi) and tore apart the armored dictator as the U.S. launched 112 'Tomahawk' and 'Tornado' British anti-aircraft guns rendered useless.

The purpose of the mission was "to stop the murderous madness of Gaddafi 'as Sarkozy said. This madness was ensañanado with Benghazi and coalition bombing had prevented a slaughter in the city. After killing the colonel armor surrounding the town and 'clean' the sky plane of the regime, the coalition's attacks focused on Tripoli.

Since then, every night, allied aircraft flying over the capital and destroy military bases and air defenses. The Libyan government spokesman has said that coalition attacks have caused dozens of civilian casualties. However, the coalition rejects it. In fact, in order not to cause casualties among the Allies led to a supposed 'neutral' and leave cities such as uncontrolled Misrata in the hands of snipers.

The coalition bombed only around people, sheltering the tanks and men of the dictator in them. The operation 'Dawn Odyssey' has been led by French, American and British, Spanish naval support and active participation of two Arab countries: United Arab Emirates and Qatar. The involvement of NATO in the military mission has been the most discussed throughout the week.

While countries like the U.S. and Italy supported it, others like France, Germany or Turkey rejected it. In the end, as agreed on Thursday night, NATO has the military command in operations and will soon assume control of the air exclusion zone. In Libya, who still controls on the ground (not on the sky) is the Libyan leader, Muammar Gaddafi.

The coalition has to insist on its objective is not the colonel. This is supposedly in Tripoli, under the Allied night bombing, clinging to power and sending his followers against the rebels. For its part, the rebels kept bloody battles with the hosts of Gaddafi in Misrata, Ajdabiya and Zinta, and only kept under their control from Benghazi to the border with Egypt.

The allies are not willing to take a step back and continue to monitor Libyan airspace. The colonel's regime has violated only once so far no-fly zone. It was Thursday, when a 'Rafale' French shot down a Libyan fighter flying Misrata. In turn, continue bombing Gaddafi's forces and NATO to patrol the Mediterranean waters to enforce the arms embargo imposed by UN mercenaries.

Beyond these actions, you know the next steps if the dictator castling his 'throne'. The U.S. is not willing to go far beyond the 'military muscle' which is already showing, as diplomatic discussions are intensifying and France and Britain spoke yesterday of a "political initiative" to solve the crisis.

Given the pessimism that little or nothing can be done or the anticipation of a long war, there are others who bet on the optimistic messages as Aboshagor JAERI, the British representative in the Libyan League for Human Rights: "It's a very complicated situation But people trust that everything will be fine.

In fact, [without the allied operation] the freedom fighters [the rebels] would have been annihilated. "

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