Rebels jubilant over no-fly zone OK

[gateley]

United Nations (CNN) -- Jubilant Libyan rebels in Benghazi erupted with fireworks and gunfire after the U.N. Security Council voted Thursday evening to impose a no-fly zone and permit "all necessary measures" to protect civilians.

The opposition, with devoted but largely untrained and under-equipped units, has suffered military setbacks this week. It has said such international action was necessary for it to have any chance of thwarting Moammar Gadhafi's imminent assault on the rebel stronghold.

"We're hoping and praying that the United Nations will come up with a very firm and very fast resolution and they will enforce it immediately," said Ahmed El-Gallal, a senior opposition coordinator, before the vote.

"We should not arrive too late," French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe said at the U.N. / snip

more... http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/africa/03/17/libya.civil.war/index.html?hpt=C1

[pinboy3niner]

1. Benghazi cheers UN no-fly zone--Video

Crowds wave flags and fireworks fill the air as Security Council passes resolution.

Video (1:45):
http://english.aljazeera.net/video/africa/2011/03/20113184020808407.html

[gateley]

3. Thanks for this. nt

[Selatius]

2. I'm still very uneasy about this Resolution, but in one sense, I'll say this about the French:

Over 200 years ago the French showed up to help the Revolutionaries fight off their own dictatorship in the form of the English Crown. It seems funny that the French are basically going to do the same again, this time with the revolutionaries in Libya.

[reggie the dog]

4. we sold weapons to libya up until a few months ago

ghadaffi got a hero's welcome in paris and that pissed off lots of people on the left and the right and i am very happy that my president is supporting the rebels again as they did in 1776 vive la révolution !

[On the Road]

6. That is True

but it was before Ghadaffi started opening fire on unarmed civilians with the heavy equipment and threating genocide.

I think the arms sales may actually have made the French feel burned and accelerated the intervention.

[Uncle Joe]

5. Kicked and recommended for democracy in Libya.

Thanks for the thread, gateley.