NATO Urged To Increase Strikes Despite Civilian Deaths

[Purveyor]

Source: ABC Online (AU)

France and the UK are calling on NATO to step up its bombing efforts in Libya, despite reports of civilian deaths from an allied airstrike.

NATO warplanes in Libya reportedly killed several civilians - including women and children - in a bombing south-west of the capital Tripoli.
utskirts of the city of Kikla, 100 kilometres from Tripoli.

Libyan state television says the bomb struck an area where police were controlling traffic, and says police and civilians - men, women and children - were killed, although the report was not immediately verified independently.

"The entrance to Kikla was targeted by a raid by colonialist aggressors who entered an area where the police control traffic and monitor motorists," the television said, adding that the raids were carried out on Monday.

Read more: http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2011/04/12/3189752.htm?section=justin

[arcane1]

1. This was done to protect unarmed civilian pro-democracy protestors?

Or are we even using that line anymore? :shrug:

[WatsonT]

2. So France and the UK have asked the US to bomb some more

Can we drop the pretext that this is anything other than a predominately American boondoggle now?

[indimuse]

3. WE ARE NATO! HELLOOOO>>>>n/t