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U.S. Ending Its Air Support in Libya

The Pentagon is about to pull its attack planes out of the international air campaign in Libya, hoping NATO partners can take up the slack. The announcement Thursday drew incredulous reactions from some in Congress who wondered aloud why the Obama administration would bow out of a key element of the strategy for protecting Libyan [...]

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US launches cruise missile attack at Libyan storage facilities in Tripoli area

As rebels flee front lines amid lack of air support, coalition forces bomb Qaddafi’s missile storage sites in the capital A U.S. defense official says U.S. ships and submarines unleashed a barrage of cruise missiles at Libyan missile storage facilities in the Tripoli area late Monday and early Tuesday, while strongman Muammar Qaddafi‘s troops sent [...]

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