Thursday, 17. March 2011
Topic: War and Peace News - on March 17, 2011 at 6:52:00 PM CET
U.S. FINALLY decides it wants a no-fly zone... but it's too little too late as Gaddafi closes in on Benghazi
The U.S. has said the UN Security Council should consider more than a no-fly zone over Libya to protect civilians as France pushed the panel to vote before Libyan rebels are defeated.
The remarks from U.S. Ambassador to the UN Susan Rice were the clearest statement from Washington so far that it will back a Security Council resolution authorising a no-fly zone over the North African state.
But the decisiveness may have come too late as Muammar Gaddafi’s forces bombarded the key eastern city of Ajdabiya, with fears he could retake Libya’s second city Benghazi if Ajdabiya falls.
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