*French & British Empires initiating WWIII with firebombing of millions in Libya

[Brocke]

Military strikes on Libya 'within hours'
March 18, 2011 - 7:08PM

Military action against Libya will come within "hours" and France will participate in the strikes, government spokesman Francois Baroin said today.

The strikes will come "rapidly ... within a few hours," he told RTL radio after the UN Security Council on Thursday cleared the way for air strikes by approving "all necessary measures" to impose a no-fly zone on Libya.

Baroin said the goal of the military action would be to "protect the Libyan people and to allow them to go all the way in their drive for freedom, which means bringing down the Gaddafi regime".
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Diplomats have indicated that air strikes from a coalition led by Britain, France and the United States could be imminent. However, the resolution rules out sending in foreign ground troops.

Earlier, deputy foreign minister Khaled Kaaim said Libya was ready for a ceasefire with the rebels battling Muammar Gaddafi, but wanted to discuss how it will be implemented.

‘‘We are ready for this decision (a ceasefire) but we require an interlocutor to discuss how to implement it,’’ Kaaim told a news conference shortly after the UN Security Council voted to permit ‘‘all necessary measures’’ to impose a no-fly zone, protect civilian areas and impose a ceasefire.

read more: http://www.smh.com.au/world/military-strikes-on-libya-within-hours-20110318-1bzii.html?from=smh_sb

[EvadingGrid]

ITS NOT JUST A 'NO-FLY-ZONE'  + + UN Resolution is a blank cheque !!!

U.N. Security Council approves no-fly zone over Libya
CNN

The U.N. Security Council on Thursday voted to approve a no-fly zone extending over all of Libya to try to halt Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi's mounting attacks against rebel positions.

The resolution states  that "all necessary means" can be used to enforce the no-fly zone. Flights to provide humanitarian aid, medicine or for evacuations are exempt.

[EvadingGrid]

UN security council resolution on Libya: key points
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/mar/18/un-security-council-resolution-key-points

The main details of UN Resolution 1973 authorising action to protect Libyan civilians from Muammar Gaddafi

It authorises UN 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''.

[EvadingGrid]

Gaddafi's son: Libya not afraid of UN resolution
http://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=212733

Saif al-Islam responds to UN Security Council decision to authorize military strikes on Libya; France, Norway to join int'l military action.

Libya is not afraid of a UN resolution authorizing military strikes to protect Libyan civilians, Al Arabiya television quoted Saif al-Islam, one of Muammar Gaddafi's sons, as saying on Friday. Al Arabiya did not say where or when he made the remark.

The United Nations Security Council voted Thursday to authorize military force against Gadhafi’s forces.

[EvadingGrid]

I’ll attack passenger jets, warns Gaddafi, as US air strikes loom
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/libya/8389769/Libya-Ill-attack-passenger-jets-warns-Gaddafi-as-US-air-strikes-loom.html

Western forces could launch bombing raids against the Libyan regime as early as Friday after the UN NWO backed international military action.

[Brocke]

Libya "anti-terror" forces to go into Benghazi-TV

CAIRO, March 18 | Fri Mar 18, 2011 4:43am EDT

The Libyan army will surround but not enter Benghazi and "anti-terror" forces will be sent in to disarm rebel forces which are in control there, Al Jazeera quoted Saif al-Islam Gaddafi as saying on Friday.

Al Jazeera also quoted Saif al-Islam, one of Muammar Gaddafi's sons, as saying the Libyan army would assist residents fleeing Benghazi. The quotes were carried in a headline bar. It was not clear where or when Saif al-Islam had spoken.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/18/libya-benghazi-tactics-idUSLDE72H0G320110318

[Brocke]

New War: U.N. Authorizes Bombing of Libya

The Alex Jones Channel
You Tube
March 17, 2011

The globalist war drum keeps beating. Since the faux people’s revolution could not topple the crazed Libyan dictator, the U.N. voted to institute a no fly zone. That report was immediately updated and the no fly zone turned into a British and French bombing campaign which is scheduled to start on Friday (3-18-2011). While the world is focused on the meltdown in Japan, the elites are continuing their plan of mid-east destabilization which will eventually turn into a showdown with Iran.

http://www.infowars.com/new-war-u-n-authorizes-bombing-of-libya/

[Dig]

I’ll attack passenger jets, warns Gaddafi, as US air strikes loom

Potential false flag in progress people pay attention !

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/libya/8389769/Libya-Ill-attack-passenger-jets-warns-Gaddafi-as-US-air-strikes-loom.html

Western forces could launch bombing raids against the Libyan regime as early as Friday after the UN backed international military action.

Colonel Gaddafi threatened retaliatory attacks on passenger aircraft in the Mediterranean last night if foreign countries launched air strikes against Libya.

“Any foreign military act” would expose “all air and maritime traffic in the Mediterranean Sea” as targets for a counter attack, the Libyan regime said.

The warning was issued after America formally backed a joint British and French initiative for a no-fly zone over Libya and other military action against Col Gaddafi’s regime

[Kilika]

Let's not forget Bahrain and the antics of Saudi Arabia, but then it's hard to seeing the media isn't covering it either.

[Brocke]

Following U.N. Vote, France Vows Libya Action ‘Soon’

By DAN BILEFSKY, MARK LANDLER and ALAN COWELL
Published: March 18, 2011

UNITED NATIONS — Only hours after the United Nations Security Council voted to authorize military action, including airstrikes against Libyan tanks and heavy artillery and impose a no-flight zone to try to avert a rout of rebels by forces loyal to Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi. French officials said on Friday that military action would start “within a few hours” and news reports said British and French warplanes would spearhead the attack.

Jason Decrow/Associated Press

Member states voted to approve a resolution that will impose a no-fly zone over Libya during a meeting of the Security Council. Russia abstained.

Eurocontrol, Europe’s air traffic control agency, said in Brussels on Friday that Libya had closed its airspace.

In Tripoli, government minders told journalists that they could not leave their hotel for their own safety, saying that in the aftermath of the United Nations vote, residents might attack or even shoot foreigners. The extent of the danger was unclear. On previous Fridays, the minders have sought to restrict foreign journalists so they could not cover demonstrations after midday prayers on the Muslim holy day.

read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/19/world/africa/19libya.html?src=twrhp

[EvadingGrid]

Let's not forget Bahrain and the antics of Saudi Arabia, but then it's hard to seeing the media isn't covering it either.

Yes, unbelievable hypocrisy !!!

They don't want a UN Resolution to flatten Saudi Arabia, and over throw the Saudi Royal Family.

[EvadingGrid]

Gaddafi threatens to attack passenger jets and ships in the Med as UN finally backs air strikes to protect Libyan rebels

By James Chapman and Jason Groves
Last updated at 9:26 AM on 18th March 2011


    * Military action against Gaddafi backed by ten votes to zero
    * China, Russia, Brazil, India and Germany all opt to abstain
    * Libyan dictator threatens planes and ships in Mediterranean
    * Country's air space now closed to all traffic ahead of attack
    * British and French jets poised as action could begin 'in hours'


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1367063/Libya-crisis-World-strikes-Gaddafi-UN-votes-protect-Libyan-rebels.html#ixzz1GwknHS4k

[menace]

were is Russia on the issue?

[EvadingGrid]

were is Russia on the issue?

BRIC - China, Russia, Brazil, India and Germany all opt to abstain at the United Nations NWO Rockefeller Conference centre in New York.

[Kilika]

They took the option of looking the other way while others do the dirty work.

[iks83]

Just horrible... as soon some catastrophe happens all the criminals around the world take that opportunity to carry out their long planned missions. And Germany again right at the top... why why why with all their BS talk about the evil right wing extremist nazi fascists everywhere and lets throw some more holocaust deniers in jail... why are they always the first to speechify reasons for war.

[Brocke]

were is Russia on the issue?

USA arms former Soviet states to make them attack Iran
17.03.2011
 
The USA intends to contain Russia and Iran in the Caspian area. At the same time, the US is planning to help Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan develop their navies. A report published on EurasiaNet said that the US administration emphasizes the increasing importance of Caspian Sea security and the possibility of the sea's militarization."

The above-mentioned countries are planning to build their navies "more or less from scratch" in spite of the fact that Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan have impressive flotillas in the Caspian Sea, especially Azerbaijan.

Moreover, a comparison of naval forces shows that the strongest country in the region (except for Russia, of course) is Azerbaijan. For instance, the navy of Azerbaijan is stronger than that of Iran.

EurasiaNet says that "it's hard to tell how serious the new plans are, but it does seem to be a concerted effort to build naval capacity in the Caspian."

US journalists give certain examples of how Washington is going to develop its military and technical cooperation in the region. First off, the Americans intend to increase the power of Azerbaijan's navy, which is strong enough already. In addition, "the United States will continue to work with Azerbaijan's navy to increase Caspian maritime security, develop professional military education, enhance peacekeeping capabilities in support of coalition operations, and promote progress towards NATO interoperability..."

http://english.pravda.ru/world/ussr/17-03-2011/117231-usa_azerbaijan-0/

[EvadingGrid]

David Cameron, the British Prime Minister is making a statement in the House of Commons.

[EvadingGrid]

Security Council authorizes ‘all necessary measures’ to protect civilians in Libya

http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=37808&Cr=libya&Cr1=

17 March 2011 – The Security Council today effectively authorized the use of force in Libya to protect civilians from attack, specifically in the eastern city of Benghazi, which Colonel Muammar Al-Qadhafi has reportedly said he will storm tonight to end a revolt against his regime.

Acting under Chapter VII of the UN Charter, which provides for the use of force if needed, the Council adopted a resolution by 10 votes to zero, with five abstentions, authorizing Member States “to take all necessary measures… to protect civilians and civilian populated areas under threat of attack in the Libyan Arab Jamhariya, including Benghazi, while excluding an occupation force.”

The abstentions included China and Russia, which have the power of veto, as well as Brazil, Germany and India.

Expressing grave concern at the deteriorating situation, the escalation of violence, and the heavy civilian casualties, the Council established a no-fly zone, banning all flights – except those for humanitarian purposes – in Libyan airspace in order to help protect civilians. It specifically calls on Arab League states to cooperate with other Member States in taking the necessary measures.

The Arab League last weekend requested the Council to impose a no-fly zone after Mr. Qadhafi was reported to have used warplanes, warships, tanks and artillery to seize back cities taken over in what started out a month ago as mass protests by peaceful civilians seeking an end to his 41-year rule.

The resolution further strengthens an arms embargo that the Council imposed last month when it unanimously approved sanctions against the Libyan authorities, freezing the assets of its leaders and referring the ongoing violent repression of civilian demonstrators to the International Criminal Court (ICC).

The Council called on Member States today to ensure strict implementation of the embargo, including through inspection of suspect ships on the high seas and of planes going to or from Libya, deplored the flow of mercenaries into Libya whom, according to media reports, Mr. Qadhafi has recruited.

Demanding an immediate ceasefire and a complete end to violence and all attacks against and abuse of civilians, and condemning the “gross and systematic violation of human rights, including arbitrary detentions, enforced disappearances and summary executions,” the Council noted that the attacks currently taking place may amount to crimes against humanity.

ICC prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo has already opened an investigation into Mr. Qadhafi, some of his sons and members of his inner circle for such crimes in repressing peaceful protesters. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has said Mr. Qadhafi lost his legitimacy when he declared war on his people.

READ MORE
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=37808&Cr=libya&Cr1=

[larsonstdoc]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-qm9U3X3EU


  Ron Paul:  Leave Libya Alone!  (VIDEO)

[bigron]

Let's not forget Bahrain and the antics of Saudi Arabia, but then it's hard to seeing the media isn't covering it either.

Yes !   We must not forget Bahrain........Is Obama & his "neocons" going to do the same here as in Libya ??

[EvadingGrid]

David Cameron says military action 'justified'
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-12784729

David Cameron has said military intervention is necessary in Libya to stop "brutal attacks" on civilians, saying the UK would "play its part" in action against the Gaddafi regime.

The UK Prime Minister told MPs that "exceptional circumstances" justified action in Libya within "clear limits".

He was assured there was a "clear and unequivocal" legal basis for action.

He said it would be a joint operation between the UK, France and the US on a "appropriate timescale".

Mr Cameron called on the Libyan leader to abide by a UN resolution agreed on Thursday - calling for an immediate ceasefire and attacks on civilians - and that if he did not so action would begin immediately.

UK, French and US warplanes are set to go into action over Libya after the UN backed "all necessary measures", short of an invasion, to protect civilians.

Earlier, the prime minister chaired an emergency meeting of the Cabinet, attended by senior military commanders.

A French government spokesmen has said initial air raids on Libyan positions could take place "within a few hours".

But No 10 sources have so far declined to put any timetable on possible British military engagement - or whether UK involvement could begin this weekend.

[EvadingGrid]

International forces ready to strike Libya

Russia Today
http://rt.com/news/libya-international-military-strike/

An international military operation against Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi’s regime may start within hours. But Libya says it will immediately strike back.


IMHO They can not move quickly, and they are hoping gaddaffi will not realise he has a small window of opportunity to strike at the rebels, before the NWO forces can organise themselves.

[larsonstdoc]

Yes !   We must not forget Bahrain........Is Obama & his "neocons" going to do the same here as in Libya ??

http://tarpley.net/2011/03/15/behind-the-2011-orgy-of-destabilizations/#more-2217


  As only Tarpley can do it.  More at the link.  THIS ARTICLE IS AMAZING!!!



Behind the 2011 Orgy of Destabilizations: Pre-Emptive Coups by the CIA to Halt an Exodus of US Satraps and Viceroys Leading to a Multipolar World


Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D.
TARPLEY.net
March 15, 2011

Washington DC, March 15, 2011 – In the late winter of 2011, governments were for a few weeks falling like bowling pins all across the Middle East and far beyond. We are witnessing a massive orgy of deliberate destabilizations of previous client regimes on the part of the CIA, the State Department, the National Endowment for Democracy, and the various NGOs and foundations which follow their lead. This has taken the form of a mad rampage of attempted color revolutions, people power coups, putsches by camarillas of generals, and incipient civil wars in such countries as Tunisia, Egypt, Bahrain, Yemen, Algeria, Saudi Arabia, Iran, and others, with the tremors being felt as far away as Belarus and China. This tsunami of coups was signaled by three waves of document dumps by the “Wikileaks” limited hangout operation of the Anglo-American intelligence community, and has been supported and encouraged by the Obama regime up to the limits of what the traffic would bear in each case. During the most recent days, the time of the Libyan civil war, the old Suez 1956 coalition of aggressive and unreconstructed British and French neo-colonialists has also reemerged as a strange historical atavism.



The Anglo-American Empire is now undergoing a collapse phase, although not caused by debt as claimed by the reactionary academic and imperialist planner Niall Ferguson at the “Aspen Ideas Festival” last July – a gathering where calls were raised for an immediate attack on Iran.1 The overthrow of existing governments and the breakup of existing national states, wherever possible, is intended to put the brakes on this collapse by preventing the national states from taking timely political action to save themselves from the imperialist shipwreck by defecting to other power centers, reversing existing alliances. The Anglo-American plan is for a super-national empire over the planet, with a neo-feudal war of all against all on the ground.

The Threatened Return of a Multi-Polar Middle East
The current goal of London and Washington is to stop a jailbreak by their former clients. Since the beginning of the end of the USSR in about 1980, the Middle East has been a unipolar Anglo-American show. The past 30 years of US-UK hegemony have been an historical oddity. Today, the Middle East is reverting to its more typical multi-polar complexion, with a revival of Chinese, Russian, Iranian, Turkish, and other interests – making a better deal for the Arabs more likely than under the recent Anglo-American-Israeli power monopoly. The current CIA destabilizations are supposed to abort this return of multipolarity to the Middle East.

In my books Obama the Postmodern Coup: the Making of a Manchurian Candidate (April 2008) and Barack H. Obama: the Unauthorized Biography (August 2008) I warned that the next phase of US imperialism under Obama would rely increasingly on subversion, destabilization, color revolutions, soft power, mass manipulation, CIA people power coups, and postmodern putsches. A color revolution was attempted by the CIA in Iran in the summer of 2009, and ended in failure. Similar color revolutions were attempted during 2010 in Italy (the purple revolution), Macedonia, Thailand, and Belarus, among others. Now, with much of the Mediterranean, Middle East, and parts of Eastern Europe under CIA attack, the thesis of my 2008 books is definitively confirmed. The CIA limited hangout operation known as Wikileaks has just launched an attack against the president of Indonesia for bribery and corruption, signaling that a CIA attack will soon be under way against Jakarta as well.

The current destabilization spree is a singular historical event. The French Revolution of 1789 was thoroughly fomented by Great Britain through economic warfare against France combined with the subversive activities of British intelligence chief Jeremy Bentham and Samuel Romilly of the Jacobin propaganda mill located on the palatial Bowood estate of Lord Shelburne in England. The 1848 wave of revolutions across Europe was organized and detonated by the British using the radical nationalists of Giuseppe Mazzini and the followers of Karl Marx and Mikhail Bakunin against the authoritarian Holy Alliance governments of Prussia, Russia, and Metternich’s Austria. In 1989, Anglo-American intelligence worked hard to overthrow the Warsaw Pact Communist regimes in Eastern Europe. But in each of these cases, it was an imperial power which was seeking to destabilize one or more of its rival or enemy states. Today, the large majority of the Middle East and other nations which have been destabilized would have to be classed as clients, allies, or partners of the United States and the British. We can call figures like Ben Ali, Mubarak, and Saleh of Yemen the satraps of viceroys of the current empire. Qaddafi qualifies too, although he has been a more recalcitrant vassal. The shocker this time around is that Washington and London are attacking their own assets. So what is happening?

Libya’s Col. Qaddafi, once the destabilization of Libya had begun, was the most explicit, announcing that he would play several cards, ousting the west, and turning instead to China, Russia, India, and Brazil.2 Qaddafi had also been cooperating with Belarus, whose leader President Lukashenko is vilified by the US as the last dictator in Europe. Belarus provides a good example of how dangerous this game can quickly become. It will be recalled that in November 2004, the US-backed mob rule of the Orange Revolution in Ukraine led to a situation where the eastern provinces of that country were threatening to secede in protest against the NATO-IMF coup of Yushchenko and Timoshenko, while Kiev threatened to impose its dictates by force. If that scenario had gone any further, a civil war might have resulted within Ukraine, with increasing danger that Russian troops might intervene from the East and that Polish NATO troops might invade from the West, leading to a clash between NATO and Russia. This example illustrates why Eastern Europe is dozens of times more explosive than anything in the Middle East, since in Eastern Europe collisions that might involve hydrogen bombs are never more than two or three steps away. Fortunately, the Orange Revolution in Ukraine has now collapsed, and the IMF and NATO kleptocrats ousted; it is unlikely that any new color revolutions can be mounted in Kiev for at least a generation after this terrible experience.

[Brocke]

UK deploys fighters for Libya no-fly zone

By Harvey Morris at the UN, Peggy Hollinger in Paris and James Blitz in London

Published: March 17 2011 08:16 | Last updated: March 18 2011 11:56

Britain is poised to move fighter jets to bases from where they can help enforce a no-fly zone over Libya, after the UN Security Council gave the green light to conduct air strikes against Colonel Gaddafi’s forces, Prime Minister David Cameron said on Friday.

“Preparations to deploy these aircraft have already started and in the coming hours they will move to airbases from where they can start to take the necessary action.” Mr Cameron told parliament.

French president Nicholas Sarkozy will host talks in Paris on Saturday to discuss co-operation and co-ordinated action against Libya with representatives “at the highest level possible level” of the European Union, Arab League and African Union.

The UN Security Council on Thursday night approved a resolution authorising “all necessary measures’’ to protect civilians under threat from the Libyan regime.

link to reference the article - http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/f5080b82-506a-11e0-9e89-00144feab49a.html#ixzz1GxBKqmhr

[Dig]

asymmetric warfare against humanity.

Smart Mobs, HAARP, Nuke Meltdowns, NLE11, Exelon's Chicago plans, NY Dirty Bomb drill in April, Conventional Blitzkrieg in Libya, Oil manipulations, and Cybernetic visions

Gonna be a hell of a couple of months!

[Ze1tge1st]

Shock and Awe: The sequel
Action/Drama/Sci-Fi/Adventure

Plot: When the first shock and awe took place back in 2003, the world was stunned at the magnitude and swiftness of "the hidden hand". A secret cabal working from an undisclosed location(s) known only by rumors as 'The New World Order', had a long lost plan to turn our planet into their own ideology. One hero rose from the ashes of the first shock and awe (Jones), as he now continues his fight for freedom and a strong-willed determination second only (if not better) to the best agents of "the hidden hand". More...

A long sarcastic joke. But seriously, we're being duped into yet another war. It's frankly tiring.  

[Dig]

I wonder how all the Google/Twitter revolutionaries feel now that it is overtly obvious they were nothing but puppets for FULL FORCE NAZI BRITZKREIG OPERATIONS OF WHOLESALE GENOCIDE BY THE REAL CORRUPT KINGS AND QUEENS OF THE WORLD!

[agentbluescreen]

Shock and Awe: The sequel
Action/Drama/Sci-Fi/Adventure

Plot: When the first shock and awe took place back in 2003, the world was stunned at the magnitude and swiftness of "the hidden hand". A secret cabal working from an undisclosed location(s) known only by rumors as 'The New World Order', had a long lost plan to turn our planet into their own ideology. One hero rose from the ashes of the first shock and awe (Jones), as he now continues his fight for freedom and a strong-willed determination second only (if not better) to the best agents of "the hidden hand". More...

A long sarcastic joke. But seriously, we're being duped into yet another war. It's frankly tiring.  

Serious Note to the US government; never shoot at and murder students like at Kent State or shoot at and murder citizens like at Waco and Ruby Ridge or you will be destroyed and overthrown by the UN so that people can have Freedom.

[Dig]

Looks like Cameron & Co. may be getting ready for the Skull and Bones rituals on 322 by sending in ground troops thus forever solidifying the 3/22 date as the official start date of WWIII.

[Dig]

Serious Note to the US government; never shoot at and murder students like at Kent State or shoot at and murder citizens like at Waco and Ruby Ridge or you will be destroyed and overthrown by the UN so that people can have Freedom.

no need for that when the Hitler doctrine has already given the UN "justification"

Proof that post 9/11 illegal wars were planned to find US guilty in Int'l Courts
http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=201604.0

[Jackson Holly]

"...protect the Libyan people and to allow them to go all the way in their drive for freedom ..."

War is Peace

Time for a new sock puppet.

[Dig]

Who the hell would fund the British and the French Empires in an unnecessary war?

What banking institution still has plenty of money for such an engagement? Which banking institution would do such an opportunistic thing when both empires are pushing austerity measures onto their people because supposedly they are broke?


"WELCOME TO THE HOUSE OF ROTHSCHILD, WHAT GENOCIDE WOULD YOU LIKE FUNDING FOR TODAY?"

[feeditup]

Land of the gun  is coming call a cease fire , it dosent matter who has the most oil or money its the one with the biggest gun who is going to come take it you need worrie about

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_O0zDBm-o4

[bigron]

Clinton Promises to Bomb Libya, Calls Qaddafi 'Creature'

by Robert Dreyfuss


The Nation, March 17, 2011

http://www.thenation.com/blog/159295/clinton-promises-bomb-libya-calls-qaddafi-creature

UPDATE 6:45 pm: The UNSC voted 10-0 for a no-fly zone. China, Russia, and Germany abstained.

UPDATE 5:45 pm: I guess when you go to war against someone, you have to demonize them, and it was so today with Secretary of State Clinton, who called Muammar Qaddafi a "creature," while admitting that an NFZ over Libya would mean bombing the country. Said Clinton:

"A no-fly zone requires certain actions taken to protect the planes and the pilots, including bombing targets like the Libyan defense systems.… Qaddafi must go. [He is] a ruthless dictator that has no conscience and will destroy anyone or anything in his way. If Qaddafi does not go, he will just make trouble. That is just his nature. There are some creatures that are like that."

UPDATE 4:00 pm: The UN Security Council is scheduled to vote around 6 pm today on Libya, and my guess is that the United States wouldn’t push for a vote unless they were sure that it would pass, i.e., that Russia and China won’t veto. The Guardian reports that military action will begin "within hours" of the vote at the UN. It adds:

"Britain, France and the US, along with several Arab countries, are to join forces to throw a protective ring around the Libyan rebel stronghold of Benghazi as soon as a UN security council vote on military action is authorized, according to security council sources."

UPDATE 12:15 pm: Russia’s President Medvedev has warned that Moscow won’t support a resolution at the United Nations that authorizes military action against Libya, though it appears that Russia, while skeptical of a no-fly zone, hasn’t ruled out supporting that. But he warned that the resolution that the United States seeks would permit all-out war. "The draft resolution proposes permitting ground operations. But you and I understand what ground operations mean: they probably mean the beginning of war, and not civil war but war involving an international contingent," said Medvedev.

UPDATE 12:00 pm: Some helpful suggestions from Jeffrey White at the Washington Institute for Near East Affairs:

"In terms of military effectiveness, the best option would be one combining limited air strikes against regime air and ground forces, the creation of no-fly and no-drive zones, and the insertion of ground forces to bolster rebel defenses in the east. This would best be carried out by a coalition of forces from the United States, NATO, and one or more Arab states (perhaps Egypt). Such an approach could be initiated rapidly and escalated in stages if necessary. Intervention on this level would likely cause the rapid collapse of government forces in the east, with forces in the west succumbing more gradually. In political terms, however, this option would be difficult to green-light.

"The next best option would involve U.S./NATO forces, along with one or more Arab states, establishing no-fly zones and providing military assistance to the rebels. This would have a significant military and psychological impact on both sides and could probably be implemented more rapidly than the previous option. It would also be easier to manage politically, although not necessarily easy."

UPDATE 11:55 am: Even as it condones the Saudi-UAE invasion of Bahrain to put down a peaceful rebellion there, the United States has the chutzpah to suggest that if it invades or bombs Libya it will seek financial help from—guess who?—Saudi Arabia. Speaking to Congress, Undersecretary of State William Burns said the next steps that the United States takes in Libya will be done in partnership with the Arabs "both in measures that would be taken and also in the financial support for them." Burns, too, confirmed that at the United Nations the United States is seeking support for "measures including a no-fly zone but not limited to that."

UPDATE 11:45 am: According to Reuters, "The latest draft resolution on Libya under discussion at the United Nations calls for 'all necessary measures short of an occupation force’ to protect civilians under threat of attack, Britain said on Thursday." Widely reported is that the United States is considering air strikes.

British Foreign Secretary William Hague said that the United States is pushing to expand authority to attack Libya. "There is nothing now holding them back," said Hague. "In fact, yesterday the United States proposed a strengthening of the resolution which the UK and France and Lebanon were putting forward together at the Security Council."

ORIGINAL POST The end game in the civil war in Libya is approaching, fast. At the United Nations, backed by London and Paris, the United States is pushing for authority to attack Libya.

Sensibly, Senator Richard Lugar, a Republican, declared that before attacking Libya the Obama administration must seek a declaration of war by Congress. But Hillary Clinton blithely ignores all that. "We are moving as rapidly as we can in New York to see whether we can get additional authorization for the international community to look at a broad range of actions—not just a no-fly zone, but other actions as well."

It’s possible, of course, that the conflict in Libya will be over quickly, long before the United States can act, even if it can overcome Russian and Chinese opposition at the UN Security Council. So far, at least, the United States hasn’t said it will act unilaterally.

Muammar Qaddafi’s forces have surrounded Ajdabiya, a rebel stronghold that is just south and west of  Benghazi, the capital of the anti-Qaddafi movement. According to the Wall Street Journal, rebels are using seized planes and helicopters to mount air attacks against Qaddafi’s forces as they move east. It’s unclear if the rebels can hold Ajdabiya, though it seems unlikely, and a battle for Benghazi looms.

As the noose tightens around Benghazi, where rebels are expected to mount an all-out defense, the United States position has shifted suddenly in favor of military intervention. Casting aside its earlier caution, which seemed to reflect a sensible unwillingness to involve itself in yet a third war in an Muslim country, the Obama administration now favors military action beyond a no fly-zone (NFZ).

The British and the French are egging Washington on. "What about American power?" said France’s foreign minister, Alain Juppé. Alistair Burt of the UK Foreign Office said that there has been a "significant change" in the views of the White House: "They realize that something needs to be done beyond the isolation and the warnings that have already effectively been given by the international community." The US ambassador to the United Nations, Susan Rice, a liberal interventionist who’s been extremely hawkish on Libya, proclaimed that US action needs to go beyond an NFZ. "The situation on the ground has evolved and…a no-fly zone has inherent limitations in terms of protection of civilians." Presumably that means that the United States is considering actions from imposing a ban on ground and naval actions by the Libyan armed forces—under threat of US attack—and even military counterstrikes against the advancing Libya army. Anything like that would be dangerous and stupid, and in the wake of the military action by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates in Bahrain, hypocritical, too.

Added Rice: "We are discussing very seriously, and leading efforts in the council around, a range of actions that we believe could be effective in protecting civilians. But the US view is that we need to be prepared to contemplate steps that include, but perhaps go beyond, a no-fly zone at this point."

Obama seems poised to cave in to pressure from neoconservatives who have warned that they’ll blame him for Qaddafi’s survival if the United States fails to attack or invade Libya.

http://www.thenation.com/blog/159295/clinton-promises-bomb-libya-calls-qaddafi-creature

 

[Stan]

A BBC crone suggested drones could be used. Something for the Libyans to look forward too!

[Joseon]

this is getting crazy.

[Dig]

written before Iraq war:

To 'employ strategic nuclear forces coercively' and strengthen 'national security'

In October 2001, when asked whether the use of tactical nuclear weapons against the caves where the Taliban were sheltering, suggested by Congressman Steve Buyer, was ruled out, Rumsfeld said, 'I don't rule out anything, but my answer very simply is, we are not having a problem in dealing with those tunnels in terms of the ordinance.' 83 This marked the major shift that was taking place in US policy from regarding nuclear weapons as a deterrent to nuclear attack by another state, hopefully never to be used, to treating them as one of a range of alternatives to be considered for battlefield use.

Rumsfeld had for some time been a supporter of the Center for Security Policy, which strongly advocated investing in the development of a National Missile Defense (NMD) system (widely known as 'Star Wars'), when he was appointed by Congress to chair a Commission to Assess the Ballistic Missile Threat to the United States. By applying a worst case scenario, for instance the transfer of a complete ballistic missile to a nation such as North Korea by China, he reached the conclusion in 1998 that such an attack could happen in the next few years, a possibility previously ruled out by US intelligence. 84 NMD is part of a 'New Triad' to the development of which the Pentagon is now committed - offensive strike weapons (nuclear and non-nuclear), strategic defenses and a revitalised defence infrastructure. Billions of dollars are being spent on the research, production and infrastructure involved.

The Center for Security Policy was set up in 1988, and received funding from wealthy rightwingers such as the Coors family and Richard M Scaife as well as corporate donors such as Boeing, General Atomics, General Dynamics, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman and other weapons contractors. The election of George W Bush meant that the policies it had advocated now had a substantial chance of being put into practice. Over twenty of its close associates or advisory council members now held government positions, including Feith; JD Crouch, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Security Policy; Robert Joseph, Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs for Proliferation Strategy, Counter-Proliferation and Homeland Defense; Perle; Roche; and Zakheim. Several members of the Center's advisory council or board of directors were also on the board of directors of the National Institute of Public Policy. Its Chief Executive Officer, Keith Payne, had in 1980 co-authored with Colin S Gray an article entitled 'Victory is Possible', which urged the US military to make plans for fighting and winning a nuclear war: 'The West needs to devise ways in which it can employ strategic nuclear forces coercively , while minimizing the potentially paralyzing impact of self-deterrence.' In January 2001, the National Institute for Public Policy published a report, Rationale and Requirements for US Nuclear Forces and Arms Control, prepared by a study group including Stephen Cambone, now a special assistant to Rumsfeld; Stephen Hadley, Deputy National Security Adviser, and Joseph. Several members, in government after Bush came to power, were involved in conducting a Nuclear Posture Review. 85

Its secret report, presented to Congress in January 2002, said that the Pentagon should be prepared to use nuclear weapons against China, Russia, Iraq, North Korea, Iran, Libya and Syria; . Such weapons could be used in three types of situations: against targets able to sustain non-nuclear attack; in retaliation for attack with nuclear, biological or chemical weapons; or 'in the event of surprising military developments'. War between Arab nations and Israel or between China and Taiwan were among the scenarios where the USA should be prepared to launch a nuclear attack. While conventional nuclear weapons caused destruction on such a large scale that they were 'self-deterring', potential enemies of the USA would be more likely to believe that smaller, tactical nuclear weapons could be used against them 86 (sometimes known as 'mini-nukes'). The revelation in 2002 that the anthrax sent through the post was identical in its DNA sequence to a strain found at the Fort Detrick US military laboratory 87 caused some embarrassment and cast a spotlight on the government's biological weapons programme. It has been suggested that a rogue scientist who had worked for the US government or one of its contractors took some of the deadly bacteria and used it to mount a campaign of terror.

[shipgeek]

Sarkoscum has lost his mind. He is a mad man.

Once they start savagely bombing Lybia they will get retalliation in the form of major terror attacks on French soil and maybe in the UK also. Bombs will go off in the streets of Paris and London.

The Boomerang effect. You receive what you send out to others. It never fails.

[Brocke]

The Anglo-American oil barons are in the process of gaining total control of the Caspian Sea, the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf. The Map below shows how they are systematically sparking color revolutions to usher in military puppet regimes. Once these regimes are in place they will have a stranglehold on Middle East oil. The final target is of course Iran who has plans to build a pipeline linking the Caspian Sea to Persian Gulf by 2016.




New pipeline to link Caspian Sea to Persian Gulf

Source: Press TV
http://www.payvand.com/news/11/jan/1093.html

01/10/11

Iran plans to construct an oil pipeline which links the Caspian Sea to the Persian Gulf, the deputy oil minister and director of the Iranian National Oil Company says.

"Currently, this pipeline is in the planning stage, and when completed, it will have the capacity to transfer the oil output from the Caspian Sea's oil producing states to the Persian Gulf," Seifollah Jashnsaz told reporters in the southern Khark Island.

"With the opening of the Jask oil pipeline, the Caspian Sea and the Persian Gulf are to be linked," he added.

Jashnsaz said the 1,550-kilometer pipeline is expected to be completed within five years.

He said a budget of USD 3-3.5 billion has been allocated for the project.