Hingga sekarang yang di bom adalah sasaran militer...
Adakah korban sipil seperti yang di khawatirkan oleh Liga Arab?
Dan Qatar apakah ikut membom atau tidak?
Kalau tidak apa alasannnya?
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U.S. fighter jet crashes in Libya
By the CNN Wire Staff
March 22, 2011 -- Updated 1344 GMT (2144 HKT)
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U.S. F-15 fighter jet crashes in Libya
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
NEW: Both crew members are "safe," the U.S. military says
NEW: The jet experienced an "equipment malfunction"
NEW: Both crew members are out of Libya, a senior U.S. defense official says
The crash "was not due to enemy or hostile actions," a military spokesman
says
Tripoli, Libya (CNN) -- A U.S. Air Force fighter jet crashed in Libya after
experiencing an equipment malfunction, but both crew members ejected safely and
are now out of Libya and in U.S. hands, the U.S. military and a senior U.S.
defense official said Tuesday.
A pilot and weapons officer aboard an F-15E Strike Eagle had flown from Aviano
Air Base in Italy to Libya when the fighter experienced problems, the U.S.
military command for Africa said in a statement. Both pilots ejected, the
statement said.
The pilot and weapons officer suffered minor injuries but landed safely in
Libya, the military said.
A U.S. military plane picked up the pilot, a senior defense official said.
Libyan rebels recovered the second crew member and "took good care of him"
until coalition forces "could come get him," the official said.
Both crew members are out of Libya, the official said.
The jet was based out of the Royal Air Force base at Lakenheath, England. It
flew to Libya as part of a coalition attack on Libyan air defense targets meant
to protect civilians in that country. The action was authorized by the United
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The crash was "not due to enemy or hostile actions," said Kenneth Fidler, a
spokesman for U.S. Africa Command.
It came after a U.S. official said an international mission to weaken the force
of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi has stopped the ruler's momentum. But
criticism and questions about the operation persist, with no clear answer on
who will take over command of the military operation and what the end game or
exit strategy will be.
Missiles and anti-aircraft fire pierced the night sky in Tripoli hours before
dawn broke Tuesday, the fourth day of the multinational effort to protect
civilians from attacks by pro-Gadhafi forces.
The United States fired 20 Tomahawk cruise missiles into Libya in the past 12
hours, a military spokeswoman said early Tuesday morning. A total of 159
Tomahawks have been fired by the United States and the United Kingdom since
Operation Odyssey Dawn started Saturday. The mission includes enforcement of a
no-fly zone.
Cmdr. Monica Rousselow also said one of the three U.S. submarines that
participated at the beginning of the operation has since departed the area. She
declined to say which submarine.
The international operation has targeted air defense sites and command centers.
But Gadhafi himself has not been targeted, and there are no plans to kill the
leader, said Gen. Carter Ham, the head of U.S. forces in Africa.
"I could see accomplishing the military mission, which has been assigned to me,
and the current leader would remain the current leader," he said.
"We think we have been very effective in degrading his ability to control his
regime forces."
Ham said no Libyan aircraft have been observed flying since the military
operations began Saturday. And air attacks have stopped Libyan ground forces
from approaching the eastern rebel stronghold of Benghazi.
Violence has raged in Libya following protests calling for democracy and
demanding an end to Gadhafi's almost 42-year-long rule. Protesters have been
met by force from the Gadhafi regime, and numerous world leaders -- including
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon -- have denounced the killings of civilians
by Gadhafi's troops.
The U.N. Security Council passed a resolution Thursday that allows member
states "to take all necessary measures to protect civilians under threat of
attack in the country ... while excluding a foreign occupation force of any
form on any part of Libyan territory." It also imposed a no-fly zone.
Barak Barfi, a research fellow with the New America Foundation, said "it's
certainly clear" that the allied coalition has stymied the onslaught of Gadhafi
troops against rebels in eastern Libya.
"Before the decision in the U.N. was taken Thursday, it seemed like Gadhafi was
going to overrun the opposition in a matter of days," he said.
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But "it's unclear if the rebels can form under any type of organized command
and move forward now that the airstrikes have taken away Gadhafi's offensive
capabilities," Barfi said Tuesday. "It's unclear at this point in time who
would take control after Gadhafi leaves. We know that there are really no state
institutions in Libya."
Gadhafi -- who has not spoken publicly since he promised a "long-drawn war"
with "the new Nazis" on Sunday -- has announced a cease-fire. But bloodshed
Monday in Misrata indicated a very different reality, according to an
opposition spokesman.
The spokesman, Mohamed -- who would not divulge his last name due to concern
for his safety -- said Monday the destruction in the key city was
"unimaginable" and that Misrata was bombarded heavily over the past four days
by forces loyal to Gadhafi.
"He keeps talking about a cease-fire, but he hasn't observed that for one
minute here," Mohamed said.
Based on what he saw at a hospital, Mohamed said Monday's death toll among
civilians at the hands of pro-Gadhafi forces was 15. Another 51 civilians died
in weekend attacks by pro-Gadhafi forces, Mohamed said.
Gadhafi opponents have expressed gratitude for the foreign intervention.
Anti-Gadhafi residents in Benghazi said loyalist forces would have massacred
them if they had been able to enter the city.
The international military coalition focused Monday on extending the no-fly
zone to al-Brega, Misrata and then to Tripoli, a distance of about 1,000
kilometers (more than 600 miles).
Air forces from France, Spain, Italy, Denmark and Britain flew missions to
maintain a no-fly zone over Benghazi, Ham said.
Canadian and Belgian forces joined coalition forces Monday, he said, and
aircraft carriers from Italy and France have added "significant capability" in
the region.
The United Arab Emirates had been prepared to send two squadrons to participate
in the international effort, said Maj. Gen. (Staff) Pilot Khaled Abdullah
Al-Buainnain -- the former commander of the Emirates' air force and air
defense. However, he said, those plans have changed due to criticism by the
United States and the European Union of the Gulf Cooperation Council's
deployment of troops to help the monarchy stabilize Bahrain.
The UAE has chosen not to take a military role in Libya until Washington and
the European Union clarify their position on the use of troops in Bahrain, but
it will contribute to the humanitarian effort in Libya, Al-Buainnain said.
About 80 sorties were flown Monday -- more than half of them by air forces
representing countries other than the United States, Ham said.
But support for the attacks was not universal. The Russian government said the
mission has killed innocent civilians and urged more caution. India, China and
Venezuela have also spoken out against the airstrikes.
The Libyan government said over the weekend that 48 people -- mostly women,
children and clerics -- have died in allied attacks.
U.S. Vice Admiral Bill Gortney, however, has said there is no indication of any
civilian casualties. And France -- which conducted the first strike in Libya on
Saturday when fighter jets fired at a military vehicle -- also disputed claims
of civilian deaths.
The United States has said it wants to hand over leadership of the military
operation in the coming days. But it's unclear to whom the reins will go.
NATO could command the coalition's no-fly mission in Libya, but some Arab
nations are hesitant to fly under a NATO banner -- and that has held up the
move, said one official who asked not to be identified due to the sensitivity
of negotiations.
"NATO has the capability to do a rapid switchover," the official said. "The
problem is, they have to do everything by consensus."
If Arab nations don't sign on to a NATO mission, another option would be to
create an ad-hoc command-and-control structure piece by piece, the defense
official said. But that, the official said, would take time.
CNN's Nic Robertson, Arwa Damon, Ivan Watson, Virginia Nicolaidis, Pam Benson,
Yousif Basil, Charley Keyes, Chris Lawrence, Jill Dougherty, Elise Labott,
Paula Newton, Richard Roth, Jenifer Fenton, Niki Cook and journalist Mohamed
Fadel Fahmy contributed to this report
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