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Thursday, February 24, 2011

Britain no longer has the military equipment for a no-fly zone in Libya

A Tornado GR1 of XV Sqn RAFI had to stifle a laugh this morning when I heard a discussion on the Today programme about the possibility of establishing a no-fly zone in eastern Libya to protect anti-government protesters from Col Gaddafi’s genocidal intentions.

John Humphrys, that renowned opponent of the Iraq War, was talking to Sir Jeremy Greenstock, our former man at the UN and Lord Owen, the former foreign secretary.

Everyone seemed to be in accord that Gaddafi was a nutter, and that Britain and other Western powers should intervene militarily asap.

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