Things in Libya are getting complicated and pretty nasty. One of Gaddafi’s sons has been killed in a suicide air mission on his barracks. Khamis was running one of his father’s forces and had been leading many of the recent attacks on the Libyan rebels. Some say it was a rebel pilot crashing into the Gaddafi compound. Gaddafi’s camp is saying it was one of our RAF missiles that did the job. Gaddafi himself has temporarily vanished, but has allegedly ordered civilians to be rounded up and used as human shields against attacks by the Western coalition. Cameron has continued to insist that our involvement is morally justifiable and that we are playing by the book. He hasn’t ruled out killing Gaddafi if it came down to it although he’s saying that isn’t part of the plan. He has also announced that the Libyan rebels can do whatever they want to with Libya once all this all over, so we won’t have another Iraq situation. We shall see.
The US are seemingly keen to pass the hot potato and get themselves out of the main equation – and have said that control of the operation will soon be handed over to France, Britain or Nato.
Nato is yet another confusing alliance between a load of countries who scratch each others backs. This one is made up of 28 countries from the US and Europe. It was formed at the end of World War II to try and prevent more fighting. The deal goes: If you attack one of the Nato countries, you attack all of them. Which has done a good job of keeping us relatively safe so far.
In the case of Libya, Nato is still struggling to decide whether to get involved. Not all of the 28 countries want to… so we shall have to see how it plays out.
Japan is still reeling from their own week of hell. There has been progress made to bring the Fukushima nuclear plant under control, and survivors are still being pulled from wreckage elsewhere in the country – which is good news. It has been estimated to take over 5 years for Japan to re-build itself back to normal.
In Yemen, government ministers and now army generals have turned on President Saleh, as protesters continue to campaign for a democracy and for his resignation.
And finally, google has accused Chinese authorities of fiddling with its gmail service and preventing Chinese users from accessing it properly. If true, it would be another indication that the strict communist regime is worried about revolutions and trying to limit Internet freedom to keep ‘wrong’ ideas from spreading.
Bon Nuit...
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