Oorlog in Libië #93: De slag om Tripoli laat niet lang op zich wachten

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Op maandag 28 maart 2011 22:17 schreef zoefbust het volgende:
Daar gaan er weer een paar

USS Stout (DDG 55) Launches Tomahawk Missiles in Support of Operation Odyssey Dawn

USS Stout (DDG 55) Launches Tomahawk Missiles in Support of Operation Odyssey Dawn

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Op maandag 28 maart 2011 22:30 schreef zoefbust het volgende:
Er was ook nog een Mystery flight 10 dagen geleden

While the United Nation Security Council was voting on the No-Fly-Zone for Libya, this Bombardier BD-700 tail nr N799WW was heading to Tripoli Airport International. During contact with Malta ACC the flight was scrubbed by Tipoli ACC. Therefore N799WW contacted Tripoli ACC direct on 120.900 MHz and was cleared for landing at Mitiga Airport. At 22:30 UTC this flight was airborne again from Mitiga and departed via Malta and Italy to an unknown destination...

The N799WW Mystery: CIA Linked Plane Left Libya On Eve Of Action

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March 25, 2011

What exactly was a CIA-linked jet doing landing in Tripoli as the UN Security Council met to approve military action? Exchanges with air traffic control recorded by amateur radio hams show a plane with registration N799WW was cleared for landing at Mitiga International Airport 11km east of Tripoli on the evening of 17 March.

The Bombardier BD-700 plane is registered to Wells Fargo Bank Northwest NA, a subsidiary of US superbank Wells Fargo & Company. What has set tongues wagging is that the same subsidiary is the trustee for a Raytheon Hawker aircraft with a tail number N168BF which was allegedly used for extraordinary rendition flights by the CIA.
At 22:30 UTC this flight was airborne again from Mitiga and departed via Malta and Italy to an unknown destination, rumoured to be Luton.

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Interessant verhaal

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Op maandag 28 maart 2011 22:12 schreef yavanna het volgende:
Pentagon: "US role changing to one of support. USS Providence sub re-tasked elsewhere"

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Op maandag 28 maart 2011 22:38 schreef zoefbust het volgende:
Dit is het toestel

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28 Mar 2011 20:21 Source: reuters // Reuters

WASHINGTON, March 28 (Reuters) - The coalition enforcing a no-fly zone over Libya carried out strikes against the command headquarters of one of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's most loyal units, which has been one of the most active attacking civilians, U.S. Admiral Bill Gortney said on Monday.

Gortney, the director of the U.S. military's Joint Staff, told reporters the coalition had fired six Tomahawk cruise missiles in the past 24 hours and had carried out 178 air sorties, most of them strike-related aimed at Gaddafi's military.

He said the U.S. had no confirmed report of any civilian casualty caused by coalition forces since it began enforcing a U.N. resolution authorizing military action to protect Libyan civilians from attacks by Gaddafi's forces.

(Reporting by Missy Ryan, Editing by Sandra Maler)

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Diplomats discuss Libya's future as Italy plots Gaddafi's escape route

Rome is negotiating an African haven for the Libyan leader as international pressure mounts on him to go

Belgian Defence Minister De Crem at Araxos airbase Belgian defence minister Pieter De Crem by a Belgian F16 fighter at Araxos, Greece. Diplomatic pressure on Gaddafi to go is mounting. Photograph: Yves Herman/Reuters

Efforts appear to be under way to offer Muammar Gaddafi a way of escape from Libya, with Italy saying it is trying to organise an African haven for him, and the US signalling it will not try to stop the dictator from fleeing.

The move came as diplomatic and military pressure on Gaddafi mounts as Britain tries to assemble a global consensus demanding he surrender power while intensifying air strikes against his forces.

Britain will be hosting an international conference including the UN, Arab states, the African Union, and more than 40 foreign ministers, focused on coordinating assistance in the face of a possible humanitarian disaster, and building a unified international front in condemnation of the Gaddafi regime and in support of a Nato-led military action in Libya.

On the eve of the London conference, Italy offered to broker a ceasefire deal in Libya, involving asylum for Gaddafi in an African country. "Gaddafi must understand that it would be an act of courage to say: 'I understand that I have to go'," said the Italian foreign minister, Franco Frattini. "We hope that the African Union can find a valid proposal."

A senior American official signalled that a solution in which Gaddafi flee to a country beyond the reach of the International Criminal Court (ICC), which is investigating war crimes charges against him, would be acceptable to Washington, pointing out that Barack Obama had repeatedly called on Gaddafi to leave.

"I can't say I know of active efforts to find him a place to go, but I would not say it has been ruled out," the official said. "The ICC has said it will ready to pursue the case, but there are also the rules of the ICC," he added, pointing out that some countries do not recognise the court's jurisdiction.

British officials said they would rather see Gaddafi face trial, but if his escape was the price of a peaceful settlement they would be able to live with that.

David Cameron and Nicolas Sarkozy tried to ratchet up the pressure on Gaddafi, issuing a joint statement on the eve of the conference declaring his era over, and indicating that his lieutenants might escape prosecution if they abandoned him immediately. "We call on all his followers to leave him before it is too late," they said.

Nato officially announced it was taking over control of the air strikes campaign on Sunday, but the handover of command from the US will not happen for a few days, alliance officials said. Meanwhile, with Gaddafi forces and rebels squared for a battle around Gaddafi's birthplace of Sirte, British planes taking part in the coalition that has been conducting the campaign for the past 10 days, stepped up their bombardment.

RAF Tornados hit 22 tanks, armoured vehicles and artillery pieces over the weekend, the Ministry of Defence said. In the early hours of Monday, they struck ammunition bunkers near Subha in southern Libya, according to the Major General John Lorimer, the MoD's chief military spokesman.

This is significantly more weapons than the Tornados fired over the first week of air strikes. Defence officials say the higher tempo is the result of more intelligence surveillance and assessments from reconnaissance aircraft. But British defence officials made clear they expect more restrictive targeting rules when their planes come under the command of a Canadian Nato general, Charles Bouchard, possibly by Thursday. Bouchard said that the transition would take a few days and it is a complex operation.

Discord over the air strikes threatens to undermine the consensus the UK will attempt to construct at the Lancaster House conference. Russia denounced the air campaign, arguing it violated UN security council resolution 1973, passed earlier this month, which permitted "all necessary measures" to be used to protect civilians.

The Russian foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, said: "We consider that intervention by the coalition in what is essentially an internal civil war is not sanctioned by the UN security council resolution."

Turkey's prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, was also critical of the air campaign in a Guardian interview on Monday, and in a symbolic blow to the London conference, it emerged that Amr Moussa, the secretary general of the Arab League whose support for military action was deemed crucial by Washington and its allies would not be attending, sending a deputy instead.

The joint statement issued by Cameron and the French president was intended in part to heal a rift which opened up in recent days between the countries over the command of the air campaign and France's recognition of the Benghazi-based National Libyan Council. The rebels are not invited to the conference, but William Hague is expected to meet one of their leaders, Mahmoud Jibril.

The shadow defence secretary, Jim Murphy, will warn today that Britain should be careful about siding with the rebels. Speaking at the launch of a review Labour's defence policy, Murphy will say: "The bravery of the Libyan opposition is not in doubt. What is unclear is the motives of some, other than the removal of Gaddafi. As the opposition move westwards across Libya it is crucial that we better understand who they are and their wider ambitions."