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Libya says 9 civilians killed in NATO airstrike
Libya's government said NATO warplanes struck a residential neighborhood in the capital Sunday and killed nine civilians, including two children. Hours later, NATO confirmed one of its airstrikes went astray.The incident gave supporters of Moammar Gaddafi's regime a new rallying point against the international intervention in Libya's civil war. The...
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Libya unrest: NATO to discuss no-fly zone
President Barack Obama's top national security aides emerged from private talks Wednesday with a growing sense that imposing a no-fly zone over Libya would have a "limited impact" on halting the kind of violence raging in the North African nation, senior administration officials said.That position, sure to shape the international debate about poten...
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Gaddafi launches deadly air assault, US pushes for no-fly zone
With airstrikes, armour and artillery, military units loyal to Col. Muammar el-Gaddafi hammered the rebels seeking his ouster in battles along the eastern Mediterranean coast and in the besieged western city of Zawiyah on Tuesday, as a new report documented how badly the insurgents lagged the Gaddafi forces in equipment and capabilities. Gaddafi fo...
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Libya says 9 civilians killed in NATO airstrike
Libya's government said NATO warplanes struck a residential neighborhood in the capital Sunday and killed nine civilians, including two children. Hours later, NATO confirmed one of its airstrikes went astray.The incident gave supporters of Moammar Gaddafi's regime a new rallying point against the international intervention in Libya's civil war. The...
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Libya unrest: NATO to discuss no-fly zone
President Barack Obama's top national security aides emerged from private talks Wednesday with a growing sense that imposing a no-fly zone over Libya would have a "limited impact" on halting the kind of violence raging in the North African nation, senior administration officials said.That position, sure to shape the international debate about poten...
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Gaddafi launches deadly air assault, US pushes for no-fly zone
With airstrikes, armour and artillery, military units loyal to Col. Muammar el-Gaddafi hammered the rebels seeking his ouster in battles along the eastern Mediterranean coast and in the besieged western city of Zawiyah on Tuesday, as a new report documented how badly the insurgents lagged the Gaddafi forces in equipment and capabilities. Gaddafi fo...
