Arab League condemns broad bombing campaign in Libya

[Karmadillo]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/arab-league-condemns-broad-bombing-campaign-in-libya/2011/03/20/AB1pSg1_story.html

By Edward Cody, Sunday, March 20, 1:01 PM

CAIRO—The Arab League secretary general, Amr Moussa, deplored the broad scope of the U.S.-European bombing campaign in Libya on Sunday and said he would call a new league meeting to reconsider Arab approval of the Western military intervention.

Moussa said the Arab League’s approval of a no-fly zone on March 12 was based on a desire to prevent Moammar Gaddafi’s air force from attacking civilians and was not designed to embrace the intense bombing and missile attacks—including on Tripoli, the capital, and on Libyan ground forces—that have filled Arab television screens for the last two days.

“What is happening in Libya differs from the aim of imposing a no-fly zone,” he said in a statement on the official Middle East News Agency. “And what we want is the protection of civilians and not the shelling of more civilians.”

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A shift away from the Arab League endorsement, even partial, would constitute an important setback to the U.S.-European campaign. Western leaders brandished the Arab League decision as a justification for their decision to move militarily and as a weapon in the debate to obtain a U.N. Security Council resolution two days before the bombing began.

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[The_Casual_Observer]

1. "no fly zone" was just one "phase" of a plan to occupy Libya "for their own good"

[BeFree]

2. Who do they think they are?

Just because they live there they have the right to object to the imperialist making war in their hood?

</sarcasm>

When I read the UN resolution and saw that it went well beyond a no-fly declaration, it told me that the imperialists had fooled everyone again. The Arab league sees it that way, too.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

3. Wait 'til the Pentagon mouthpieces start having "regrets" for "collateral damage."

Another FUBAR war in the making.

[Ikonoklast]

4. What did he think creating a 'No-Fly' zone entailed?

Radar, anti-aircraft gun and missile sites, airfields, command-and-control centers, planes on the ground are all targets in creating a 'No-Fly' zone.

Sounds more like buyer's remorse and seeking cover from political backlash.

[ProSense]

5. Here is

a video (Second clip is Arab League Secretary-General Amr Moussa)

The quote in the article and video do not match.

Reuters: Arabs say Gaddafi must go, wary of Western action

Sounds like a meme being pushed by the media: Gaddafi must go

[Distant Observer]

6. Guess they now realized how the FORKED TONGUE method works