Libya crisis: US 'caught off-guard' by air strikes

[dipsydoodle]

US officials say Egypt and the UAE were behind air strikes in Libya last week that targeted Islamist militia.

A senior US official told the BBC that Washington was not consulted about the attacks and was "caught off-guard".

The air strikes on militia positions around Tripoli's international airport were reportedly carried out by Emirati fighter jets using bases in Egypt.

The Egyptian authorities have denied involvement, and there has been no direct comment from the UAE.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-28933070

[Laelth]

1. Something here smells fishy.

I find it hard to believe, in this day and age, that we don't know where those planes came from.



-Laelth

[rpannier]

2. So much better off now that Qaddafi is gone

Libya is a bastion of Democracy and peace, rather than a failing state controlled by individual regional warlords and the central government has almost no authority outside it's compound and high ranking officials are kidnapped...