Posted By Josh Rogin Tuesday, March 1, 2011 – 12:41 P
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Tuesday that the administration is actively considering implementing a no-fly zone over Libya and gave a full-throated defense of robust State Department funding.
Clinton testified on Tuesday morning before the House Foreign Affairs Committee led by Chairwoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL), who has been critical of the administration’s response to the unfolding events in the Arab world and has pledged to slash the State Department and foreign aid budgets this year.
Clinton had just returned from Geneva, where she met with other foreign ministers under the auspices of the U.N. Human Rights Council. She said preparations were underway to aid the Libyan opposition, but that there have been no final decisions on whether or how to use the U.S. military to support the ouster of Muammar al-Qaddafi, as world leaders have called for.
“We are working to translate the world’s outrage into action and results,” Clinton said, highlighting that USAID is sending two teams, one each to Egypt and Tunisia, to aid the humanitarian response to the flow of refugees coming from Libya.
The United States has moved the USS Enterprise carrier strike group to the area near Libya. Clinton said that military assets are being repositioned now to support the humanitarian mission there, but that direct military intervention remained a possibility.
“One of those actions under review is a no fly zone… it is under active consideration,” said Clinton.
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Hillary makes no bones about US unconditional support for Israel, but fails to answer why Mubarak remained in power so long and democracy was never established.
Of course, the same could be said about Saddam Hussein and Qadaffi… 😎
Great point made Geezer! 😉
Libya Today (es, en, it):
http://aims.selfip.org/~alKvc74FbC8z2llzuHa9/default_libia.htm
Ph. Dr. Manuel Iglesias – Guerrero
translation:
in total, killed a hundred unknown Libyans. The bloodthirsty birds coming from the west also destroyed Murat Sidi Bilal al-Jamahiriyah, and airports of Tripoli, Benghazi and Benin.On April 15, 1986 thirteen aircraft U.S. Air Force, authorized by President Ronald Reagan, bombed Bab al-Azizia. Hana, a girl of only fifteen months old, died under the relentless destruction of the pumps. His father, known as Muammar al-Gaddafi, never returned to live in the house. From this date is his Bedouin tent who blanket on the bed, working and living. In the military operation, called Gold Canyon, were wounded and two other sons,powered by
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Thanks for your comment. This is interesting history and is an amazing parallel to what is happening today. Now I can see why CNN was not initially allowed into Libya to report what was going on. The military bases are being attacked again, but with modern weapons. The death of Gaddafi’s young child is mentioned in Wikipedia.
wiki:
1986 bombing of LibyaThe site was the main target of the 15 April 1986 United States bombing of Libya, authorised by U.S. President Ronald Reagan, in response to the 1986 Berlin discotheque bombing by the Libyan government.
Forewarned by both Maltese Prime Minister Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici and Italian Prime Minister Bettino Craxi[4] that unauthorized aircraft were flying over Maltese airspace heading south towards Tripoli, Gaddafi and his family rushed out of their residence in the compound moments before the bombs dropped from thirteen U.S. Air Force planes. Gaddafi escaped injury,[5] but he claimed his fifteen-month-old adopted daughter Hanna was killed and that two of his sons were injured.[6] These claims have been disputed, with some claiming that Hanna was a fabrication created for propaganda purposes.[7][8]
Damaged and hence unused for a long period of time,[9] official state receptions moved to the main military barracks buildings for a period, before the Gaddafi family reoccupied their section of the compound. As of February 2011, the compound still shows unrepaired signs of the attack