Wednesday, April 20, 2011

France, Italy, UK to send military advisors to Libya

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France and Italy will join the United Kingdom in sending small teams of military advisers to eastern Libya, as the limits of the NATO air campaign. The United States also announced that it will provide $25 million in "non-lethal assistance" to the Libyan rebels. The fear for the country's division is a debate in the NATO-led air campaign. Human rights groups have accused Gadhafi's forces of using cluster bombs in the city. The Italian defense minister said today that ten military advisers would be sent to Libya, while France will send fewer. The British military liaison advisory team being sent to Benghazi "will be drawn from experienced British military officers," Hague said in a statement.

The "advisers" will try to solve the problem and/or the will have to choose a side on which they are willing to support. I believe that the three neo-imperialist NATO members ( France, England and Italy), with the biggest investment in Libyan oil contracts, will demand NATO involvement in an invasion for regime change in order for them to still get oil from Libya. One reason that I can think of why they would send troops into another country without that country's permission is that the situation is becoming very severe and need to stop before it gets worse

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