Libya NTC Leader Wants NATO Warplanes Through December
Urges NATO to Add 'Military Advisers' on the Ground
In an interview today with al-Jazeera, Libyan National Transitional Council (NTC) chairman Mustafa Abdul Jalil urged NATO to continue its bombing campaign over the nation through at least the end of December and to add “military advisers” on the ground.
“We look forward to NATO continuing its operations,” Jalil insisted, saying he would welcome the forces on the ground to supplement the “hundreds” of Qatari ground troops who have already arrived to help the Benghazi-based NTC occupy the western half of the nation.
NATO was supposed to hold a vote earlier this week which would have ended the bombing campaign at the end of this month, but has now revealed that it is postponing the vote at least until Friday, and it seems their military involvement is going to continue.
Though Jalil is couching this is terms of resisting “loyalists” to the former regime, the real military threat to the NTC comes from within the council itself, as the group is increasingly splintered and most are predicting a new civil war between the Gadhafi defectors and the Islamist rebels within the NTC.
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RickR30
October 26th, 2011 at 10:43 pm
“We look forward to NATO continuing its operations…" How sick are our NTC friends? And who is nato supposed to be bombing? Anyone the NTC doesn't like. nato reduced to a Euro-version of US armed forces- assassins available for hire by corrupt third world leaders. The West is finished.
Issa Kirarira
October 26th, 2011 at 11:39 pm
By by Libya, ours is only to pray for you.
By starting to say that the real military threat to the NTC comes from within the council itself, as the group is increasingly splintered and most are predicting a new civil war between the Gadhafi defectors and the Islamist rebels within the NTC.
Issa Kirarira
Emilyrose
October 27th, 2011 at 2:21 am
So the NTC is so beloved by the 'liberated' Libyans it needs NATO and NATO warplanes to continue slaughtering them into submission.
Yep sounds like another NATO 'success' to me!
However please watch this short clip.
NATO was even in on the murder of Gaddaffi.
An eye opener. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embed…
Jamal
October 27th, 2011 at 2:50 am
These people NTC are the elements in distructions.., we all know that.., who is helping them must be the question in US Democratic party and Social Democrats of Sweden and King of England hand in hand with the Neo Liberals there.., the Italian Mafiosi and Sarkozi the Franch (Mafiosi) connection.
Simon Maxwell
October 27th, 2011 at 5:33 am
It's a bit of a joke that there are Gadaffi defectors in the government of the "new" Libya. If Gadaffi was such an evil son of a bitch and these defectors served under him, how can they claim to be a legitimate part of the "new" and "democratic" Libya? They should be tried for their crimes against the Libyan people (as Gadaffi should have been, had he not been executed by a rebel lynch mob).
David4Peace
October 27th, 2011 at 11:23 am
The NTC defines the word "treason." They called in the enemy, NATO, to destroy their own country so they could take power. What a bunch of thugs!
Walk_Tall
October 30th, 2011 at 11:22 am
England does not have a King.