Omid Azzizi

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Libya: Another Iraq in the Making?

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On March the 17th, following continued attacks on the civilian population by Colonel Gaddafi’s regime, the United Nation Security Council (UNSC) passed Resolution 1973 which calls for ‘a ban on all flights in the airspace of the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya in order to help protect civilians’.  It also ‘authorizes Member States to take all necessary measures to enforce the ban’ and ‘to take all necessary measures, to protect civilians and civilian populated areas while excluding a foreign occupation’.  What does ‘all necessary measures' mean in real terms?  Does it mean pre-emptive strikes to destroy air facilities, communication and defense infrastructure