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Defense News - Libya |
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Wednesday,
June 8, 2011, 11:46 AM |
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continues to increase pressure on Qadhafi Regime with more
air strikes on Tripoli. |
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Demonstrating
increasing resolve to bring the Qadhafi regime’s violence
against the civilian population to an end, NATO aircraft
carried out intensive and sustained strikes against pro-Qadhafi
facilities in Tripoli throughout the day and night of 5
and 6 Jun 2011. The targets included command and control
centers, a number of military support facilities and anti-aircraft
weapon sites.
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British
Army Apache attack helicopters, flying from HMS Ocean, conducted
their first operational sorties over Libya, June 4, 2011.
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“The
targets that were struck overnight were vital to the pro-Qadhafi
forces’ ability to harm the civilian population
- essentially they are the hub of Qadhafi’s command
network - and we will continue to erode its foundations
until the violence against the Libyan population ends,”
said Lieutenant-General Charles Bouchard, Commander of
Operation Unified Protector.
On Tuesday, June 7, 2011, Nato coalition carried out its
heaviest daytime raids of its nine-week campaign on what
it said were command and control centres in and around
the capital, with more than 20 air strikes by low-flying
jets.
The Libyan government acknowledged that military installations
belonging to the Republican Guard had been targeted, while
Libyan television reported Col Gaddafi's Bab al-Aziziya
compound had also been hit.
NATO’s
Operation UNIFIED PROTECTOR is being conducted under United
Nations Security Council Resolution 1973, which calls
for an immediate end to all attacks against civilians
and authorizes all necessary measures to protect civilians
and civilian populated areas under threat of attack in
Libya.
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