Libya: On Ground Updates
Libyan Rebels Just Can’t Advance Without Air Support - Obama/Cameron Consider Sending Arms to Rebel Forces
- Operation Odyssey Dawn -
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
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DOD graphic by Paul Sherman
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Three things have become clear in the international air campaign to protect Libya’s uprising against Muammar Qaddafi: [1] Foreign airstrikes decisively tip the battlefield in the untrained, if eager, rebel army’s direction. [2] The rebels can advance easily along the sparsely inhabited desert running west towards Sirte, Qaddafi’s hometown, as long as foreign warplanes are plowing the road in front of them. [3] Absent that air support, Qaddafi’s army drives them relentlessly back...
Read this CSMonitor.com report in full at link below...
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* Bloomberg.com had this report posted up on their website this Wednesday afternoon and it starts off like this... Libyan rebels retreated under fire from Muammar Qaddafi’s troops as U.S. President Barack Obama and U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron said they may consider sending arms to the opposition forces... “We will be providing them direct assistance,” Obama said in an NBC “Nightly News” interview yesterday. Asked if this meant sending weapons to the rebels, Obama said: “I’m not ruling it out. But I’m also not ruling it in.”...
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* BBC.co.uk had this report posted up on their website early evening, Wednesday and it starts off like this... Libyan Foreign Minister Moussa Koussa is in Britain and "no longer willing" to work for Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's regime, the Foreign Office says... He flew into an airport near the capital earlier on Wednesday... He has subsequently spent hours talking to British officials... His apparent defection comes as rebels in Libya are retreating from former strongholds along the eastern coast as Colonel Gaddafi's forces advance... The rebels have now lost the key oil port of Ras Lanuf and the nearby town of Bin Jawad, and are also in full retreat from Brega. In the west, the rebel-held town of Misrata is still reportedly coming under attack from pro-Gaddafi troops, reports say...
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Libya - World powers debate arming Libyan rebels
About this News Video: France and the US agreed that providing anti-Gaddafi rebels with weapons was a possibility Tuesday, as the dissident fighters... emboldened by western airstrikes... were forced to retreat 40 kilometers during an attack by pro-regime forces.
This video posted on YouTube by france24english
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