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Monday, March 21, 2011

US launches stealth bombers, more than 100 cruise missiles against Libya; Update: Arab League criticizes Western military strikes


NBC has a fairly comprehensive report on the American attack on Libyan forces this morning, complete with totals thus far on cruise missiles (114 of them) and attacks by stealth bombers on air-defense systems, with 20 of those targeted.

Military airstrips around the country have been bombed as well, up to 40 of them.

Libya claims that 48 people have died as a result of those attacks, and Moammar Gaddafi gave the usual warning to the Muslim world that this was the start of a “crusader war” against an Arab nation.

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