Remember
Daffy Gadhafi is no friend of America. He authored and sponsored
the
PanAm Lockerbe Disaster which ultimately caused the demise of Pan Am
Airways. Hopefully this "war" against Libyans will come to a
quick
end, and stop the bloodshed.
US military advisers in Cyrenaica (Libya).
Qaddafi's loses his air force
Hundreds of US, British and French military
advisers have arrived in Cyrenaica, Libya's
eastern breakaway province, debkafile's
military sources report exclusively. This is the first time America and
Europe have intervened militarily in
any of the popular upheavals rolling through the Middle East since
Tunisia's
Jasmine Revolution in early January. The advisers, including
intelligence
officers, were dropped from warships and missile boats at the coastal
towns of Benghazi and Tobruk
Thursday Feb. 24, for a threefold
mission:
1.
To help the revolutionary
committees controlling eastern Libyan establish government frameworks
for
supplying two million inhabitants with basic services and commodities;
2. To organize them into
paramilitary units, teach them how to use the weapons they captured
from Libyan
army facilities, help them restore law and order on the streets and train them to fight Muammar Qaddafi's
combat units coming to retake Cyrenaica.
3.
The prepare infrastructure for
the intake of additional foreign troops. Egyptian units are among
those under
consideration.
Qaddafi was shaken up badly
Friday,
Feb. 25, when many of his air force
commanders decided to no longer obey his orders or those of his
commanders,
debkafile's
exclusive military
sources report. This loss deprived him at one stroke of one of
the key
pillars sustaining his fight for survival against the opposition since
Sunday,
Feb. 20. It means he is short of an essential resource for recapturing
the
eastern half of the country where half of Libya's oil wealth and its
main oil
export terminals are situated.
Friday, NATO Council and the UN Security Council
meet in separate emergency
sessions to consider ways to halt the bloodletting in Libya and
punish its ruler Qaddafi for his violent crackdown of protesters.
debkafile
reported on Feb.
22: The 22,000-strong Libyan Air Force with its 13 bases is Muammar
Qaddafi's
mainstay for survival against massive popular and international
dissent……much more at link