US officials have reported an additional 60 US Marines and four Osprey aircraft deployed to Sigonella, Sicily, to join the force readying for deployment across the Mediterranean to Libya to evacuate US Embassy personnel.
Officials say the troops are on “heightened alert” at the base since yesterday’s attempted coup in Tripoli. Fighters on both sides in Libya are gearing up for a potential civil war.
The US had sent most of the force, some 200 marines, to Sicily late last week, days before the coup happened. At the time they cited non-specific “unrest” as the region for the move.
The troops are all part of a “Crisis Response” task force created after the 2012 attack on the US Consulate in Benghazi. The troops are normally stationed elsewhere in Europe, and only move to Sicily when something is happening in Libya or, in this case, a few days beforehand.
Obama really should send the Nobel Prize back to Oslo…It's obvious that the Prize committee had their heads up their collective butts when they awarded it to Obama.
They had hope that Obama represented change they could believe in. But the only thing Obama cared about was being the first black president.
Mission accomplished!
Good to know that the money spent on psychic research has been well spent, so they can know about a crisis like this before it begins.
Given the facts of recent USG involvement in destabilizing Syria and Ukraine, not to mention the attacks on Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya, it would be more surprising to find the USG wasn't involved in this latest conflict than to find out it was.
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