Arab League Criticizes Allied Air & Missile Strikes on Libya … Obama, Welcome to the Fickle Middle East
That did not take long, the Arab League is already criticizing the missile attack on Libya.
President Barack Obama just learned a “Middle East” lesson when it comes to dipping your toe into the Arab League waters. You are damned if you do and damned if you don’t. The criticism came less than 24 hours after international forces attacked Khadafi military forces to create a “no fly zone.” This after the Arab League begged for a no fly zone. What a shock, after drawing the world into a civil war conflict, the Arab League now says, ”the military operations have gone beyond what the Arab League backed”.
Amr Moussa says the military operations have gone beyond what the Arab League backed.
Moussa has told reporters Sunday that “what happened differs from the no-fly zone objectives.” He says “what we want is civilians’ protection not shelling more civilians.”
By the way, the Obama White House has billed this as an international military action; however, as AOL News points out, no Arab nation participated in Saturday’s military intervention and none are publicly supporting it.
Posted March 20, 2011 by Scared Monkeys Barack Obama, Foreign Policy, Hypocrisy, Islam/Muslims, Libya, Middle East, Military, Obamanation, Politics, World, WTF | 2 comments |
Three Journalists Missing in Libya: Two AFP & One Getty Images Journalists (Dave Clark, Roberto Schmidt & Joe Raedle) Missing Since 3/19/2011
Three more journalist are missing in Libya.
According to reports, two Agence France-Presse journalists journalists, Dave Clark and Roberto Schmidt, and one Getty Images journalist, Joe Raedle have been missing since Saturday morning in Libya while working in the eastern Tobruk region. The journalists were supposed to meet with opponents of Libyan leader Moammar Kadafi. They have not been heard from since sending their editors an email Friday night informing that they would be meeting with rebels.
AFP reporter Dave Clark and photographer Roberto Schmidt had informed the agency in an e-mail Friday night that they planned to meet opponents of Libyan leader Moammar Kadafi and speak with refugees fleeing the fighting between rebels and loyalists. They were accompanied by Joe Raedle of Getty Images, the agency said.
The journalists have not been heard from since they sent the e-mail, AFP said.
Libyan authorities are believed to be holding a number of other journalists detained while covering the uprising. They include four New York Times journalists who went missing while covering the fighting in the east last week.
Were these journalists detained by Kadafi forces. Many journalists have been detained by pro-Kadafi forces while covering the uprising in Libya. They include four New York Times journalists who went missing while covering the fighting last week and on Saturday, Al Jazeera TV said that four of its journalists, (Kamel Atalua, Ammar al-Hamdan, Lotfi al-Messaoudi and Ahmed Vall Ould Addin) including a Norwegian, a Briton, a Tunisian and a Mauritanian, were being held in Tripoli.
UPDATE I: 3 missing Western journalists apparently held by Libyan army
Three Western journalists who went missing in Libya last week were arrested at gunpoint by soldiers loyal to Moammar Gadhafi, Agence France-Presse said Monday.
Citing a driver who was traveling with them, AFP said the journalists ran into a military convoy about 7 miles (12 kilometers) outside the eastern city of Ajdabiya on Saturday. They were ordered to kneel on the side of the road with their hands on their heads, the driver, Mohammed Hamed, told AFP
Obama Being Ripped by the LEFT, Michael Moore & Louis Farrakhan for Military Action Against Libya
Is Barack Obama trying to become a wartime GWB President?
One had to wonder what the far LEFT’s reaction would be to their President becoming a military initiating President. Barack Obama was the same person who as a candidate stated he would get the US out of war in Iraq and Afghanistan. Now Obama has implicated the US in a new military action in Libya. Is the LEFT going to call this Obama’s war for oil?
Pic Hat Tip: AWD
It did not take long after the 100′s of tomahawk missiles were shot into Libya for anti-war film maker and Leftist Michael Moore to rip Obama a new one. As reported at The Hill, Moore unleashed a string on tweets comparing the U.S. military’s mission in Libya to Iraq and Afghanistan. Don Suber has much more reaction of the LEFT of Obama’s imperialism and illegal war.
It’s only cause we’re defending the Libyan people from a tyrant! That’s why we bombed the Saudis last wk! Hahaha. Pentagon=comedy
And we always follow the French’s lead! Next thing you know, we’ll have free health care & free college! Yay war!
We’ve had a “no-fly zone” over Afghanistan for over 9 yrs. How’s that going? #WINNING !
Khadaffymust’ve planned 9/11! #excuses
Khadaffymust’ve had WMD! #excusesthatwork
Khadaffymust’ve threatened to kill somebody’s daddy! #daddywantedjeb
I will give Michael Moore credit, where credit is due … at least Moore is not being a hypocrit. Did I just say that? Moore’ss tirade against Obama and also stating that Obama should return his 2009 Nobel Peace prize.
Posted March 20, 2011 by Scared Monkeys 2012 Elections, Barack Obama, Foreign Policy, Hypocrisy, Libya, Middle East, Military, Moonbats, Muammar Gaddafi, Obamanation, Progressives, US National Security, War on Terror, You Tube - VIDEO | 4 comments |
US Launches Tomahawk Cruise Missiles Against Muammar Gaddafi’s Air Defenses
And so it begins … The Pentagon has dubbed the mission, Operation Odyssey Dawn.
Shock & Awe has began, this time Libya is on the receiving end of the tomahawk missiles. United States and British forces have fired more than 110 Tomahawk cruise missiles into Libya against Muammar Gaddafi’s air defences targeting more than 20 locations. Most of the missiles targeted the coast of Western Libya and extending between Tripoli and Benghazi. There are up to date accounts reported at tyhe UK Telegraph.
A top officer confirmed on Saturday that the missile strikes after President Barack Obama said he had ordered “limited military action” to support a UN resolution backing armed intervention against Gaddafi’s regime.
Admiral William Gortney told reporters that “earlier this afternoon over 110 Tomahawk cruise missiles fired from both US and British ships and submarines struck more than 20 integrated air defence systems and other air defence facilities ashore.”
In the wake of the cruise missile attacks Muammar Gaddafi remained defiant and threatened further attacks against civilians. As reported at CNN, Gadhafi said Libya will fight back against undeserved “naked aggression.”
Libyan leader Muammar al-Qaddafi remains defiant as the U.S. and its allies launched its first attacks against military targets in Libya Saturday.
Qaddafi threatened to attack military and civilian targets in the Mediterranean in retaliation of international coalition strikes on Libya.
UPDATE I: From the NRO, Obama and his minions like Sec. of State Hillary Clinton continue to apologize for the US even in a time of war and going after a crazed terrorist dog like Gaddafi. Why would anyone say that a
CNN’s Ed Henry reports from an administration official that the Pentagon is planning for “heavy, kinetic action” on the part of U.S. forces, lasting “days, not weeks.”
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton seemed to underscore that point:
“We did not lead this. We did not engage in unilateral actions in any way, but we strongly support the international community taking action against governments and leaders who behave as Gaddafi is unfortunately doing,” Clinton said.
Posted March 19, 2011 by Scared Monkeys Foreign Policy, Libya, Military, Muammar Gaddafi, War on Terror, World, You Tube - VIDEO | one comment |