Война Ливии с Европой

20.03.2011, Рим 19:47:32 Министр обороны Италии Иньяцио Ла Русса заявил, что его страна готова использовать любые возможные способы для освобождения экипажа итальянского корабля, захваченного в Ливии, передает Би-би-си.

По словам итальянских властей, экипаж - восемь граждан Италии, двое граждан Индии и украинец были задержаны, когда их судно стояло на якоре в Триполи.

 

anybody>> Да... Это был бы удар не под дых, а в пах.

au> А ведь это можно сделать прямо сейчас... Просто отпустить пассионариев... Начальником какого-нибудь майора толкового в каждую группу... Транспорт нашёлся бы, а там за ночь (не считал) доплыл бы подарочек... Каддафи нас не читает, увы

au> А если бы повезло, то и взять сотни заложников, погрузить на тот паром и назад... Доброе утро, Николя...

17:14 Amr Moussa has apparently told the UK government that he was misquoted earlier on. The Secretary General of the Arab League apparently said that his group supported a no-fly zone, not the air strikes that have taken place, but he now says that he was simply reiterating their position that Libyan civilians must be protected.

 

16.44 Peter Bergen, the director of the national security studies program at the New America Foundation in Washington, has written a very interesting piece for CNN on Why Libya 2011 is not Iraq 2003. He says:

Opinion The high level of anti-Americanism in the Muslim world that was generated by the Iraq War is unlikely to be replicated by U.S. military action against Libya, because Gadhafi is widely reviled in the Arab world. His antics on the world stage have earned him the enmity of even his fellow autocrats — who will not be welcoming him if he chooses to "retire" to Saudi Arabia as other murderous dictators of his ilk have in the past (think Idi Amin).

And the fact that both the Arab League and the United Nations have endorsed a military action against Gadhafi strongly suggests that the Libyan intervention will not generate a renewed wave of anti-Americanism in the Muslim world.

Instead, it underlines a striking feature of the protests that have roiled the Middle East in the past several weeks: Strikingly absent from those protests has been the ritualized burning of American flags, something that hitherto was largely pro forma in that part of the world. That's because Arabs have finally been able to express publicly that their biggest enemy is not the United States, but their own rulers.