Libya: 'Mission Creep' Claims As UK Sends In Military Advisers

[Purveyor]

The British government has come under intense pressure over its response to the crisis in Libya as ministers prepared to dispatch a team of military officers to advise rebels fighting Muammar Gaddafi's forces and the RAF stepped up air strikes.

Nato commanders said the alliance was extending Nato's targets in Libya to include small satellite communications systems and telephone exchanges in strikes described by defence officials as marking a clear "shift" in targeting policy. MPs expressed deep concern about mission creep.

The UN appealed for a ceasefire in Misrata, saying at least 20 children had been killed in attacks by government forces on rebel-held parts of the city, but senior Nato officers admitted air strikes could do little on their own to prevent a worsening crisis there.

Officials from countries engaged in the bombing campaign made it clear the situation is becoming increasingly difficult. Military action is not securing their goal, the end of the Gaddafi regime, while more direct intervention would be unpopular at home and might breach UN security council resolutions on Libya.

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/apr/19/libya-mission-creep-uk-advisers

[hulka38]

1. What amazes me is the ease with which the Military Industrial Complex

and Big Oil can get its nose under the tent and do it time and time again.

[conspirator]

2. It's simple. They own the government and the judges nt

[hulka38]

3. True. My point had more to do with

the ease of fooling the public on matters of war when every lesson since I can remember screams to not trust the government's intentions and explanations.

[bvar22]

4. Realx...they're just venting a little steam.

Nuclear Plants are perfectly SAFE!!!
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Oops!
Ignore that.

RELAX.
They're JUST sending in some "advisers".
The USA has absolutely nothing to do with this.
You can already see the light at the end of the tunnel.
Just One More Friedman Unit,
and the grateful locals will be showering us with flowers and candy.



If you're not FOR the WAR in Libya,
you're WITH The Communists AlQaeda The Terrorists Saddam Qaddafi!!!