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By not in system - AOL NewsTRIPOLI, Libya -- Moammar Gadhafi's government accused U.S.-led forces of ignoring civilian casualties on Friday, showing journalists a Tripoli neighborhood that has come under attack for at least two nights. U.S. and British officials insisted civilians have been spared and retort that the Libyan leader has engineered his own atrocities. At the heart of the dispute is the difficulty separating rhetoric and stage-management from the pain of people who may have lost family, homes and sometimes livelihoods. Or maybe not. On Friday, Libyan officials took foreign journalists to Tripoli's Tajoura ...
US Commander: We Won't Stop Until Libya Is in Compliance
By Sharon Weinberger - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- A U.S. military commander says the coalition military operations will continue in Libya until Col. Moammar Gadhafi complies with the U.N. Security Council resolution to declare a cease-fire and stop all attacks on civilians. "It's my judgment, however, that despite our successes to date, that Gadhafi and his forces are not yet in compliance with the United Nations Security Council resolution due to the continued aggressive actions his forces are placing on the civilian population," Adm. Samuel J. Locklear III, commander of U.S. Naval Forces Europe and Africa, told reporters at ...
US General: Libya Operations Limited to Protecting Civilians
By Sharon Weinberger - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- There is no plan to dislodge the Libyan government or directly help opposition forces, a senior U.S. military official told reporters this afternoon, even as coalition forces move to expand a no-fly zone over Libya. "We protect civilians," Gen. Carter Ham, the head of U.S. Africa Command, told reporters at the Pentagon via satellite from the command's headquarters in Stuttgart, Germany. "We do not have a mission to support the opposition." The U.N.-approved no-fly zone was launched to protect rebel-held Benghazi from Libyan government forces. A number of world leaders have said ...
Pentagon's 'Don't Ask' Survey: Soldiers in Afghanistan Are Just Not That Interested
By David Wood - Politics DailyCombat troops in Afghanistan had less opportunity than those at home to weigh in on the potential repeal of the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell'' law on gays and lesbians in the military, Defense Department officials acknowledged. The Pentagon, under pressure to repeal the law from President Barack Obama, Congress and its own top leadership, this summer launched what spokesman Geoff Morrell described as a "scientifically supported'' effort to survey "a large representative sample of our force'' to determine how they felt about allowing gays and lesbians to serve openly. That outreach included ...
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