NATO Will Not Apologize for Libyan Rebel Deaths

[tekisui]

Source: Voice of America

NATO said on Friday its airstrikes hit rebel tanks fighting government forces in eastern Libya, but said it would not apologize for the deaths. Also in the region, large popular protests rocked Yemen, Syria, and Egypt.

British Rear Admiral Russell Harding, the deputy commander of the NATO operation, said the military alliance had no previous information the rebels were operating tanks when NATO struck the day before.

"I am not apologizing," said Harding. "The situation on the ground, as I said, was extremely fluid and remains extremely fluid and up until yesterday we had no information that TNC or the opposition forces were using tanks."

Over the past week, Moammar Gadhafi's forces had began leaving their heavy armour behind and using light trucks armed with heavy machine guns and fast-firing anti-aircraft cannons on the front lines between Brega and Ajdabiya.

more: http://www.voanews.com/english/news/africa/north/NATO-Regrets-Accidental-Strike-on-Libyan-Rebels--119484834.html

[tabatha]

1. This has been corrected.

[tekisui]

6. How so?

[tabatha]

7. It was the jerk deputy that screwed up.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-13018545

[thewiseguy]

2. We did not know they had tanks? What the fuck are our CIA forces on the grounds doing exactly?

[BOG PERSON]

3. rebel chumps got what they asked for

let the buyer beware

[JVS]

4. Were these tanks flying in the no fly zone?

[Forkboy]

5. Things are "extremely fluid"

Blood, for instance....