Does anyone else find it MILDLY ironic that the French are spear-heading the no-fly zone effort?
Live Blogs: BBC; Guardian; CNN; Al Jazeera
International military action begins as French warplanes take to the skies above Benghazi to enforce UNSC-approved no-fly zone; French Defense Official: French jets fire on Libyan military vehicles (AJE report: 4 tanks destroyed); Canadians sending fighter-bombers, instituting naval blockade.
Obama: Libyans must be protected, “our coalition is prepared to act with urgency“; Clinton: Libyan gov’t “has lost all legitimacy.”
Much-lauded Libyan Citizen journalist Mohammed “Mo” Al-Nabbous, operator of Alhurra TV livestream, reportedly killed in firefight.
Follow the money. "Below I have copied a section (from the Google Cache) on relationships with Total - the Paris based oil major. It is clear that Total is thick with the Gadaffi regime.
ReplyDeleteSo it comes as a big surprise to see Total (ahem the French Government) recognizing the Libyan rebels as a legitimate nation and exchanging ambassadors. France does not sell arms to rebels or terrorists.
Recognition of the rebels as a nation is a basis for supplying them weapons.
France has gone further and is the major proponent of a no-fly zone. It has also advocated bombing Libya.
Given the very substantial French oil interests in Libya it is absurd to think that Sarkozy (first and foremost a French Nationalist) did this without either the tacit acceptance of Total or without Total's interests in mind."
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