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Friday, March 18, 2011
International forces ready to strike Libya
An international military operation against Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi’s regime may start within hours. But Libya says it will immediately strike back.
On Thursday the UN Security Council adopted Resolution 1973 on Libya that authorizes member states “to take all necessary measures to protect civilians and civilian populated areas under threat of attack in the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, including Benghazi, while excluding a foreign occupation force of any form on any part of Libyan territory.”
A diplomatic source in London told Itar-Tass news agency that the international forces with a UN mandate may strike Libya in the coming hours. The unnamed source said that a plan of operation against Libya has been under development by the military for about a week on the orders of some EU member states’ authorities.
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What this decision effectivel¬y means is that no citizen uprising against its own authoritar¬ian government can be decisive in overtaking their overlords without the aid of the internatio¬nal or domestic military interventi¬on. In other words, might is proven right, and diplomacy is a waste of a time.
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