Britain to send more warplanes in Libya

already deployed.
“These are the aircraft which are particularly well equipped for surveillance and reconnaissance, and as the conflict has gone on and the targets have become harder to detect it is important to have this capability available,” Foreign Office Minister Alistair Burt told Reuters on the sidelines of an international Libya contact group meeting in Istanbul.
“They have the capability to launch sustained airstrikes,” he said.
NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen called on Thursday for members of the alliance to provide more aircraft to bomb Muammar Gaddafi’s forces in order to protect Libyan civilians and enforce a no-fly zone. – Reuters.

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