British warplanes attacked a sunk a small Libyan tugboat carrying fleeing Gadhafi troops today off the coast of Zawiya, in what officials said was a laser-guided bombing. NATO confirmed that the troops were being taken away from the city, which is currently under rebel control, at the time of the attack.
British officials cheered the sinking as a “direct hit” and insisted that even if the troops were leaving Zawiya they “continue to pose a threat to the local population” and that this was why they were attacked.
So far NATO has been mum on how many troops were killed in the attack but hinted there may have been survivors, saying they made a “rescue attempt” after spotting some of the troops swimming toward a nearby buoy. They didn’t say if the attempt was successful or not.
Rebel forces took control of Zawiya earlier this week and finally took control over the city’s oil refinery from regime troops yesterday. It was unclear if the troops attacked were from the oil refinery or if they had fled from the periphery of the city.
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these posts re: Libya all seem to be pro-NATO propaganda.
Is this an antiwar website or CNN?
Ah the brave RAF fighter boys
Never in the field of human conflict were so many killed so safely by so few
I guess, by the present RAF standard, what the Germans did at Dunkirk was admirable.
Anyone with even just a slight sense of morals should be rising up against NATO.
Almost everyday another outrageous cold blooded murder by NATO.
I always used to think that Israel was the only country aligned with Western nations that employed these tactics. There is a good case to class fleeing troops as civilians so NATO actions are totally contrary to the UN mandate. Time for protests against against this scumbag organisation called NATO.
They should have given the guys a warning and inflatable boats. Bombing fleeing tropps is pretty unfair.
Like bombing Dresden after the war was lost, I'd say.
Oh how brave, bombing fleeing people in a boat… Brits = P—-es