starting this thread, which i hope will be short-lived, to keep the board up to date with latest reports gleaned from the net

The French and British airforces might take out Gaddafi's tanks on the ground as well as imposing a no fly zone,......not sure of that but that's what seems to be included in the UN resolution.

and bomb Gadaffis house to kill him.

being a cynical old chap (moi??) i do wonder quite why the UN resolutrion took quite so long and also, from one report, why it will not be until monday/tuesday that this action is implemented

By that time the war will be over and there will be no need for them....typical.....

did i ever suggest such a thing?

I think that I shall make you head of the armed forces in my government reshuffle....

Monday at the earliest as the RAF don't work weekends!

Do not want to pay Sat/Sun overtime rates.

Maybe the RAF are using their two planes to ferry Royals about.

Tanker,

"fred . weak people make the world what it has become . it is the same at school .bullies rule "

Stalin, MAO, Sadam, Mubarak, Hitler, Gaddafi, Blair, Bush, Bush, "cameron" were or are strong leaders. Look where it has got the world.

I prefer Obama considered approach, but wonder what the outcome will be.

Still think that Gaddafi will be gone sooner than I originally thought, but what will replace him.

Noticed Petrol price today of 145p.

Was one of the strong men "Bush senior" a friend of the Saudi elite.

Or was he just getting a back hander for selling them weapons or buying oil?

never let facts get in the way of a good story!
it was BAE that got the Yamana(?) arms deal, as a result of which, Boeing et al were rather more than miffed and did their best to get a corruption charge to stick to BAE

Cynic.

Perhaps, Bush (Snr) was more successful in earlier periods.

From Wicked Period

(Could be wrong)

The Royal Saudi Air Force (Arabic: القوات الجوية الملكية السعودية‎, al-quwwāt al-ğawwiyyah al-malakiyyah as-suʿūdiyyah), is the air force branch of Saudi Arabian armed forces. The RSAF has developed from a largely defensive military force into one with an advanced offensive capability. The RSAF maintains the third largest fleet of F-15s after the JASDF and the USAF.

The backbone of the RSAF is currently the Panavia Tornado, with the Boeing F-15 Eagle also forming a major component. The Tornado and many other aircraft were delivered under the Al Yamamah contracts with British Aerospace (now BAE Systems). The RSAF ordered various weapons in the 1990s, including Sea Eagle anti-ship missiles, laser-guided bombs and gravity bombs. Al-Salam, a successor to the Al Yamamah agreement will see 72 Eurofighter Typhoons delivered by BAE.

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Whats new...?

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MN .... your point about zimbabwe (there are others too of course) has some validity, but you are well wide of the mark with pretty much the balance of your criticism .,... you choose to ignore (doesn't suit your argument) that there were no moves at all until such a time as AL had given their full approval and more .... without that, and it is good to hear that AL is giving physical support too, then there would have been only tenuous legality .....

would you rather that the libyan "rebels" had been left to gaddafi's tender mercies, for certainly that is what you imply?

arguing that we (nothing like uk acting alone here of course) should not pick and choose to whom we give military and/or economic support, but rather treat all equally might be wonderful in your imagined idealistic utopia, but totally preposterous in the imperfect world in which we actually live

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quink word sas and sbs already there - gad be careull oour boys are there targetting them - have a good day all

Why do the American's spell Guaddaffi with a Q ?

sorry about the spelling bit of a rush