Category: NATOSource

NATO to meet Friday to decide involvement in Libya

By the Wall Street Journal

From the Wall Street Journal:  NATO ambassadors were set to meet Friday morning to decide on involvement in the operation, diplomats said.

US and allies debating details of intervention in Libya

By Dan Bilefsky and Mark Landler, the New York Times

From Dan Bilefsky and Mark Landler, the New York Times:  After the [UN] vote, President [Barack] Obama met with the National Security Council to discuss the possible options, European officials said. He also spoke by telephone on Thursday evening with Prime Minister David Cameron of Britain and President Nicolas Sarkozy of France, a French diplomat […]

UN authorizes military action in Libya

By Maria Golovnina and Patrick Worsnip, Reuters

From Maria Golovnina and Patrick Worsnip, Reuters:  The United Nations authorized military strikes to curb Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, hours after he threatened to storm the rebel bastion of Benghazi overnight, showing "no mercy, no pity.

NATO SecGen warns UN “time is running out”

By Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Facebook

From Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Facebook:  If Gadaffi prevails it will send a clear signal that violence pays. That would be unacceptable from a humanitarian and democratic perspective.

NATO nations to increase sharing of imagery and intelligence assets

By NATO

From NATO:  In the spirit of “smart defence”, nine Nations have launched at the end of February a five-year project that will significantly boost the Alliance’s ability to tackle new challenges such as piracy by rapidly sharing imagery and other information from intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance assets.

NATO Task Force to Seek Innovative Efficiencies

By Donna Miles, American Forces Press Service

European governments “completely puzzled” about U.S. position on Libya

By Josh Rogin, the Cable

From Josh Rogin, the Cable:  Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s meetings in Paris with the G8 foreign ministers on Monday left her European interlocutors with more questions than answers about the Obama administration’s stance on intervention in Libya.

US cyber war defences “very thin,” Pentagon warns

By the BBC

From the BBC:  The US says government systems are attacked millions of times a day.

The Collapse of Internationalism

By Daniel Henninger, the Wall Street Journal

From Daniel Henninger, the Wall Street Journal:  Not the 28 members of NATO, not the 15-member U.N. Security Council, not the 22 nations of the Arab League could save Libya’s rebels from being obliterated by the mad and murderous Moammar Gadhafi.

EU police arrest 9 Kosovo war crimes suspects

By Nebi Qena, the AP