Libya Unrest Thread

[leloup46]

I don't think it will happen. I doubt also that UN does something concrete like a no-fly zones.

London to send plane, frigate for nationals stuck in Libya
(AFP) – 1 hour ago
LONDON — London will send a charter flight to Libya and deploy a Royal Navy frigate to help evacuate citizens caught up in unrest in the north African country, Foreign Secretary William Hague said Tuesday.


http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp...7baecf3173.271

[danielc]

The Netherlands, France and Britain are already sending frigates/destroyers that way, officially for a possible seaborne evacuation. Seems the Dutch ship is coming from the Gulf and the ship that left Den Helder is going directly to the Gulf to replace it, at least that's what the news said. I don't know if it's shorter to transit through the Suez than to get all the way from The Netherlands through the med towards Libya, but if the news is accurate, that is what they're doing. HNLMS Tromp and De Ruyter(the two ships in question) are Air Defense Destroyers and either one could theoretically be used to shut down airspace around Tripoli, should the international community wish to enforce a no-fly zone.

Thanks for the update.

[pride]

London to send plane, frigate for nationals stuck in Libya
(AFP) – 1 hour ago
LONDON — London will send a charter flight to Libya and deploy a Royal Navy frigate to help evacuate citizens caught up in unrest in the north African country, Foreign Secretary William Hague said Tuesday.


http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp...7baecf3173.271

Yes, also Italy is sending a warship but do you think that isn't only for evacuating citizen? I'm not so optimistic

[leloup46]

HMS Cumberland redeployed to Lybia

http://www.romandie.com/ats/news/110...7.5w3quanz.asp

[leloup46]

Yes, also Italy is sending a warship but do you think that isn't only for evacuating citizen? I'm not so optimistic

depends how the frigates are armed. SCALP-NAVAL cruise missiles could hit key targets.

[TheEvian100]

depends how the frigates are armed. SCALP-NAVAL cruise missiles could hit key targets.

SCALP-NAVAL is operational?

[Kit]

Even the translator on Al-Jazeera is getting bored, he's sighs loudly from time to time.

That might have been a sigh of frustration. Translators hate Gaddafi because he speaks with an odd dialect.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/new...cle6849070.ece

[tluassa]

So Gaddafi now not only looks like a half-crazed, chubby version of Alan Rickman but actually has become the personified Sheriff of Nuttingham. Im impressed.

[leloup46]

SCALP-NAVAL is operational?

I meant Storm Shadow

but a check seems to indicate that they have to be airborne so far, my mistake

[RSone]

Seems the RNLAF KDC-10 was scheduled to leave Eindhoven AFB around two this afternoon, which means it should already be in Tripoli(flight time is 3H 25M from Schiphol, Eindhoven is a bit more to the South). No word on any fighter escort though. If it is really a KDC-10, it could refuel it's own escort on the way, but it could simply be because a DC-10 was not available.

EDIT: Interwebs sez the RNLAF plane landed at Tripoli shortly after six. Not everyone slated to board got to the airport, so Foreign Affairs Minister Rosenthal is looking into getting another plane in there tomorrow. No word on other foreign nationals being taken in, but if the plane is not filled to capacity(which it probably won't, news sources were talking about approx. 170 Dutch citizens to be evacced on the first go) it stands to reason other nationals would be allowed as well.

[Ought Six]

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/eu...359147622.html

A Libyan naval vessel is drifting off the coast of Malta.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-12542002

Fidel Castro says U.S. ready to invade Libya.
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http://af.*******.com/article/camero...71L0ZT20110222 {R3uters}

Runways at Benghazi airport destroyed.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...022104291.html

Natural gas exports from Libya to Italy suspended by Italian company ENI.

[Al-Bundy]

Sorry cannot post images or links

[JCR]

The Luftwaffe has flown out germans as well, in two Transalls and a Lufthansa airbus.

[wotsnext]

1920: More detail from Angela Merkel giving her reaction to Col Gaddafi's speech: "The news we've had from Libya yesterday and today is worrying and the speech by Colonel Gaddafi this afternoon was very, very frightening, especially because he virtually declared war on his own people. If the use of violence does not cease then Germany will exhaust every possibility to exert pressure and influence on Libya."

[easyand]

Yes, also Italy is sending a warship but do you think that isn't only for evacuating citizen? I'm not so optimistic

DDG Mimbelli is going to be deployed as an early warning platform (she has a long range radar) in the middle of mediterranean sea and also the Elettra (ELINT/SIGINT ship) is going south