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By ANI

A team of 130 British and French agents are reportedly on a one-million-pound-a-week, do-or-die deep undercover mission in Libya to get Colonel Muammar Gaddafi.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28394.htm



Kerry, McCain Come to Obama s Rescue Over Libya

By Jim Lobe

Two key senators Tuesday unveiled a resolution that would give President Barack Obama the authority to continue operations there for up to one year.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28395.htm



'The West Is Terrified of Arabic Democracies'

By Noam Chomsky

As long as the US controls the hemisphere, or Europe before it, there is no democracy, because it gets crushed.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28398.htm



Senate opens door for US troops to fight in Libya

Although the resolution makes no mention of a land operation, this is not ruled out if the US has to defend American Government officials or save NATO servicemen.

http://english.ruvr.ru/2011/06/22/52223757.html


From Information Clearing House

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War counsel

Reason Reason
by Jacob Sullum

06/22/11

During the Bush administration, when the Justice Department s Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) got into the habit of rationalizing whatever the president wanted to do, Indiana University law professor Dawn Johnsen dreamed of an OLC that was willing to 'say no to the President.' It turns out we have such an OLC now. Unfortunately, as Barack Obama s defense of his unauthorized war in Libya shows, we do not have a president who is willing to take no for an answer...

http://reason.com/archives/2011/06/22/war-counsel



The myth of precision-guided coercion

Counterpunch
by Franklin C. Spinney

06/22/11

At the end of May the British press was filled with stories headlined 'Gaddafi to be told to stand down or face Apache attack.' As of this writing, the Apaches have attacked, but Gaddafi has not stood down. The Apache threat is a case study in the sterile but financially lucrative marriage of coercive diplomacy to surgical strikes by precision guided weapons. What passes for a war strategy in Libya is now a comic opera starring NATO as an understrength, self-referencing techno bully, who acts as if he is now so fearsome that he does not even need a carrot to go with his stick...

http://counterpunch.org/spinney06222011.html



When is a war not a war?

Red State
by Jeff Emanuel

06/22/11

The decision by a know-it-all president with no real world experience to overrule his top advisers isn t surprising (though the fact he made a decision at all is noteworthy). However, given the excerpts provided above, it should be clear that this administration s view of its own position and goals in Libya is schizophrenic to say the least...

http://tinyurl.com/3fxhelr


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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