Oorlog in Libië #83: De tweede nacht

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Op maandag 21 maart 2011 01:48 schreef Nibb-it het volgende:
Coalition military official: "Gaddafi's compound contains command center capabilities, Gaddafi nor his residence was the intended target"

CNN.

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Op maandag 21 maart 2011 02:05 schreef Nibb-it het volgende:
Nou ik ga m'n bedje opzoeken, tot morgen

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Op maandag 21 maart 2011 02:21 schreef Hans_van_Baalen het volgende:
Even een lading foto's op een rij

Der Spiegel (25): http://www.spiegel.de/fot(...)65259.html#ref=nlint
Scott Nelson (207): http://scottnelson.photos(...)on/G0000Xua2h_zsQ.8/
Neil Brandvold (25): http://pulsemedia.org/201(...)n-by-neil-brandvold/
MSN News (15): http://news.xin.msn.com/e(...)entid=4665257&page=1
Life (23): http://www.life.com/gallery/56851/image/109424327#index/0

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Op maandag 21 maart 2011 02:27 schreef vosss het volgende:
http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/fotostrecke-65259-24.html

Dat is echt een baas zo te zien

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Op maandag 21 maart 2011 02:27 schreef vosss het volgende:
http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/fotostrecke-65259-24.html

Dat is echt een baas zo te zien

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Op maandag 21 maart 2011 02:33 schreef Athlon_2o0o het volgende:

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Ze moeten hier echt een film van maken en hem de hoofdrol geven.

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@Sal7a has just forwarded an email received from a very trusted source in Misratah. We relay to you the email as it was relayed to us:

Dear All

Ive just received a call from a friend confirming the following from Misurata.

Two civilian buses loaded with armed personnel dressed as civilians have entered Misurata (ca. 60 peple) accompanied by 11 tanks and are positioned at the main hospital in Misurata (close the Time Square). The hospital has been out of service for 4 years. The tanks are positioned at the front garden of the hospital.

Gaddafi today announced that hes going to arm the public to go out and clean the cities from the revolutionary. It seems that he wants to create a massacre in Misurata tomorrow, which he will go back and say it was the Libyan people who went to kill these rats (he refers to Libyans as Rats).

A massacre is about to happen in Misurata if the international coalition doesnt wipe them out today.

Remember over 80 people have been killed yesterday in Misurata by snipers

We need to get the news out to stop the massacre from happening!!!!!

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Coalition Against Gadhafi Growing
_{By CHRISTOPHER P. CAVAS
Published: 20 Mar 2011 18:23
http://www.defensenews.com/story.php?i=6013503&c=AME&s=AIR}

Overall direction of the extended, multi-national effort to enforce a United Nations-mandated no-fly zone over Libya is not yet clear. While the U.S. is leading military operations, several key NATO partners are also involved in combat operations which began March 19.

ONE OF ABOUT 110 Tomahawk cruise missiles launched by coalition forces against Libyan government targets March 19 rises from the U.S. destroyer Barry. (Interior Communications Electrician Fireman Roderick Eubanks / U.S. Navy)
"The U.S. is militarily in the lead," Vice Adm. Bill Gortney, director of the U.S. Joint Staff, said at a March 20 Pentagon briefing, but the goal is to shift to a coalition-led leadership structure.

"We do not know when we'll be ready to do that and we don't yet know what that structure will be," he told reporters.

The immediate goal of the combat operations is not to oust Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, but to protect civilians with the establishment of a no-fly zone over Libya's northern regions, Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, said while making the rounds of Sunday-morning talk shows,

U.S. forces gathered to conduct military operations against Libya are organized under U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM), commanded by Army Gen. Carter Ham from his headquarters in Stuttgart, Germany. Adm. Samuel Locklear is in tactical command of Joint Task Force Odyssey Dawn aboard the flagship Mount Whitney in the Mediterranean. Locklear is triple-hatted as commander of U.S. Naval Forces Europe, U.S. Naval Forces Africa and of the Allied Joint Force Command, headquartered in Naples, Italy.

British Major Gen. John Lorimer described the command structure at a morning briefing March 20. "This operation is currently under U.S. command, supported closely by French and U.K. armed forces. AFRICOM is the supported Combatant Command, and U.K. has liaison officers and staff embedded at every level," Lorimer said.

A French defense ministry source told Agence France-Presse March 20 that coalition members conducting air strikes on Libyan targets are coordinating their actions but there is no central command organizing the attacks.

"There is no centralized headquarters and at this stage everyone is using their own headquarters in a coordinated manner," the French source said.

The French are operating out of Mont Verdun, near Lyon in the east of the country, where the air force has its chief air defense control center. The British headquarters are at Northwood, in the suburbs of London, and those of the United States at Ramstein in southwest Germany. The American HQ has the "greater planning capacity," the French source said....

He added that there were "exchanges of staff between the three HQs," in particular between Mont Verdun and Ramstein, and a "definition of command structures as the deployment takes place."

The purpose of Operation Odyssey Dawn, according to AFRICOM, "is to enforce U.N. Security Council Resolution 1973, which is centered on protecting Libyan citizens from any further harm from Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi's regime."

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Op maandag 21 maart 2011 02:48 schreef Piet_Piraat het volgende:

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Je vergeet die knuppel.

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Op maandag 21 maart 2011 03:21 schreef vergezocht het volgende:
Kan iemand mij uitleggen waarom de buitenlands politiek van de VS zo inconsistent is?

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Op maandag 21 maart 2011 03:21 schreef vergezocht het volgende:
Kan iemand mij uitleggen waarom de buitenlands politiek van de VS zo inconsistent is?