1011+2011+Libyan+Conflict

=2011 Libyan Conflict= Around February 16, 2011 the people of [|Libya] started to get angry at [|Kaddafi] because he had been in power for 40 years. So the people started to protest so that [|Kaddafi] would step down. The people protest around, some with [|weapons]telling Kaddafi to step down. But Kaddafi will not. The President of the United States is cooperating with other countries to make Kaddafi step down from power. The public is also highly skeptical of U.S. involvement in the Libyan crisis. According to a [|Rasmussen Reports poll] released earlier this month, 63 percent of Americans oppose the United States getting involved in the Libyan crisis. Conflicts in Libya go back many years in history. There have been many conflicts between the United States and Libya for a long time.media type="custom" key="9063058" align="left" width="110" height="110"

War with Libya
A young girl shows [|patriotism] for her country. The [|Kaddafi] forces have strong grip on [|Tripoli]. They have some reasonably well organized forces, with access to some heavier [|weapons], including some [|air power]. They have control on some other towns too, including Sirte, Muammar Kaddafi’s home town, which is on the coast halfway between [|Tripoli] and the second city, and main rebel stronghold, of [|Benghazi]. Air attacks seem to be occasional sorties by a single [|plane]. [3] In their attack on [|Brega] they used [|civilian] [|cars]. Mostly they seem unable to dislodge determined resistance from even lightly-armed irregulars. That is just as well, because the rebel forces lack organization and[| weapons]. The regular army seems to have disappeared, and probably wasn’t up too to much in the first place The Kaddafi forces seem to be consolidating. The main priority for them, apart from continuing to hold Tripoli, is to retake the towns to the west of Tripoli up to the [|Tunisian] border. [3] This seems to be slow. The attack on [|Brega] was odd because it is in the west of the country, not all that far from [|Benghazi]. The rebels managed to get in reinforcements, and this seems to have held them. They may make another attempt. Apparently they want to control the airfield, no doubt so that they can get [|reinforcements] and supplies from Tripoli. [3] Hitting home Soldiers in __ Kaddafi __ compound assess the damage from a cruise-missile strike.[1]

Arming the enemy
media type="custom" key="9005988" width="120" height="120"[1]The[| President of the United States]is deciding whether or not to arm the rebel troops with guns. [2]Some people are so angry at Kaddafi that they burn pictures of him. The [|Russia-NATO Council] will discuss the current state of affairs in [|Libya]and ways to resolve the ongoing conflict Tuesday in Brussels. Russia’s envoy to NATO Dmitry Rogozin said late last week that the Council will meet “to confirm the limits that the UN Security Council placed on the participants of the conflict”. Rogozin also reiterated Russia’s position saying that “holding [military] ground operations will be qualified as occupying Libya and that directly contradicts the resolution adopted by the [|UN Security Council”.] NATO Spokesperson Oana Lungescu said Monday that no foreign troops will be deployed and there will be no NATO presence on the ground in Libya. On Sunday, NATO began taking command of all aerial operations in Libya from the US-led force. The transfer of authority will take up to three days. The UN Security Council resolution adopted March 17 imposed a no-fly zone over Libya and measures to protect civilians from Kaddafi’s forces. Western-led military strikes against Libyan leader Muammar Kaddafi, whose forces have been attacking rebels in the east of the North African country since mid-February, began last Saturday

Libyas no fly zone
This is a map of[| Libya]. Debate continues inside the[| Obama administration]over the merits and risks of a no-fly zone in [|Libya], even if it has multilateral authorization, and this has the potential to tilt the balance of the revolution in Libya and attitudes toward the United States. The U.S is making a [|no-fly zone]over Libya as efforts to depose Libyan leader [|Muammar Kaddafi]. The Obama administration says the U.S. is committed to the rebellion.[4]

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