Basic information about the military operation in Libya:
The international military coalition bombed Tripoli by air and sea before dawn Sunday. These strikes have a "stop ahead" of the pro-Gaddafi in Benghazi, "said Admiral Michael Mullen, the highest ranking American on the ABC television network.The bombings have intensified from 19h (GMT) on Saturday night. French fighter jets have carried out the first shots against the forces of Muammar Gaddafi at 16:45 (GMT).Warships and submarines, British and American then fired over 110 Tomahawk missiles against Libyan twenty sites.
In a televised address shortly after the first strikes, Muammar Gaddafi said that the Mediterranean and North Africa was now a "battlefield" and that air and sea targets, military or civilian, were now exposed to a real danger in the region.
France, Great Britain, the United States, Italy and Canada are participating in this operation, dubbed "Dawn of the odyssey", coordinated from a U.S. military base in Germany.This is the largest military intervention in the Arab world since the invasion of Iraq in 2003 led by the United States.
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