Qatar fighter jets expected at Greek base — source

[JanDutchy]

Source: REUTERS /Arab News

Published: Mar 22, 2011 01:48
ATHENS: Greece expects six fighter jets and a cargo plane from Qatar to land at a military base on the island of Crete by Tuesday, a defense ministry official told Reuters.


Read more: http://arabnews.com/middleeast/article324906.ece

[aquart]

1. To do what?

[Javaman]

2. They are part of the middle eastern tango delegation. nt

[Ticonderoga]

3. They obviously took the scenic

route in order to kill their brethren.

[Turborama]

4. Qatar warplanes head for Libya no-fly zone duty

Source: AP

MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS

NICOSIA, Cyprus -- Two Qatar Air Force fighter jets and a cargo jet flew to a Greek air base on the island of Crete Tuesday in the first sign of military operations by Qatar so far to help enforce a no-fly zone over Libya, officials said.

The Mirage 2000 jets and the C-17 cargo aircraft made an unscheduled stop at Cyprus' Larnaca airport, and a Cyprus civil aviation official told the Associated Press that they left after refueling enroute to the Greek base. He spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media.

High winds had forced the three planes to land at Larnaca for refueling, said another who spoke on condition of anonymity because of department policy.

Greece has granted permission for six Mirage fighters and two transport planes to operate from the base, said Lt. Col. Constantinos Bouzos, a Greek military spokesman. He did not know when all the planes would arrive on Crete.

Read more: http://www.seattlepi.com/national/1103ap_eu_cyprus_qatar_planes.html

[daa]

5. This kinda says it all

"Whenever you intervene in a country, whatever your intentions, you are intervening on someone’s side. In this case, the United States, France and Britain are intervening in favor of a poorly defined group of mutually hostile and suspicious tribes and factions that have failed to coalesce, at least so far, into a meaningful military force. The intervention may well succeed. The question is whether the outcome will create a morally superior nation. It is said that there can’t be anything worse than Gadhafi. But Gadhafi did not rule for 42 years because he was simply a dictator using force against innocents, but rather because he speaks to a real and powerful dimension of Libya.

This report is republished with permission of STRATFOR"

[Hangingon]

6. Just read the Stratfor article and recommend it.

Libya and the whole are is more complex than we see in the media. Glad to seee the cite.

[orbitalman]

7. Alan Grayson: No Fly Zone; a tactic in search of a strategy. n/t