Allied Leaders Agree That Qaddafi Must Be Removed

[TomClash]

Source: NYT via AP

LONDON — Leaders of the four dozen countries and international organizations meeting here on Tuesday made it clear that the NATO-led military operation in Libya would end only with the removal of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, even though that is not the stated aim of the United Nations resolution authorizing it.

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“All of us must continue the pressure on and deepen the isolation of the Qaddafi regime,” Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said, addressing the leaders seated around a long table at the Lancaster House in central London. “This includes a unified front of political and diplomatic pressure that makes clear to Qaddafi he must go.”

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Mrs. Clinton met a second time with a senior leader of the opposition, Mahmoud Jibril, deepening the administration’s wary embrace of the provisional political council created to represent the rebels, both politically and militarily. American officials have acknowledged a dearth of information about the views of all those fighting under the opposition’s umbrella. The administration’s envoy to those rebels, John Christopher Stevens, is expected to travel to the rebel-held parts of Libya soon.

“We know some of them,” the American ambassador to Libya, Gene A. Cretz, said in Washington late last week. “We’re trying to get to know more of them, but I don’t think we’re at a point where we can make a judgment that this is a hundred percent kosher, so to speak, group.”

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/30/world/africa/30london.html?hp

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Sounds like regime change to me. Change to what is another question.

[The_Casual_Observer]

1. After they do it & the whole place is in chaos, the "allies"melt away

& we are holding the bag once again. But that's ok, it our responsiblity to fignt injustice wherever it occurs.

[Javaman]

2. can't dirty our hands...

Frankly, this is why I believe Obama "handed" over "control" of the war to NATO.

They can bomb gaddafi all they want and we won't get direct blame.

funny how that works, huh?

[Arctic Dave]

3. Of course they have to remove him now,

If they thought the production contracts were bad before just wait and see what they would be after the missile sorties.

He would tell them all to fuck off and give everything to China.

In short they painted themselves into a corner were they now feel they have to murder him.

[harun]

4. Exactly, no way they don't remove him. Not unless he pays them about

40 billion dollars and signs over all oil rights, of course that isn't going happen.