CNN: NATO approves expanded role in Libya

[dennis4868]

Brussels, Belgium (CNN) -- NATO's North Atlantic Council on Sunday approved an operations plan that will shift the entire Libyan military mission to alliance command, officials said, easing the burden on the United States and its allies to protect civilians in the war-torn country.

NATO ambassadors unanimously approved a so-called "no-fly plus" plan that will put the alliance in charge of protecting civilians as well as enforcing a no-fly zone and an arms embargo.

"Our goal is to protect civilians and civilian-populated areas under threat of attack from the Gadhafi regime," NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said. "NATO will implement all aspects of the U.N. resolution. Nothing more, nothing less."

The rest of the article is here...http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/africa/03/27/libya.nato/

[Clio the Leo]

1. Cant wait for the "Obama bows to pressure" meme....

... when things go exactly as he said they would all along.

[dennis4868]

2. Yep....

I sm already hearing that on Fox News and reading that on DU....

[Clio the Leo]

3. Fox News is understandable...

..... to see that on DU is shameful.

[Keith Bee]

4. "...under threat of attack from the Gadhafi regime,"

Understood.

[JoePhilly]

5. Prepare for Libya to drop off the DU outrage map in 3, 2, 1 ...