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Handout photo issued on 20 March 2011, by the Ministry of Defense, showing French aircraft carrier Charles De Gaulle. The carrier left Toulon, France, 20 March 2011 to enforce the Libyan no-fly zone. EPA/BGNES
The US missile strikes against the air defenses of Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi have hit almost all of their targets, the US African Command said.
"It looks like things have gone well as far as the strikes are concerned. We had 20 of 22 targets hit. The other two targets are still under assessment. We struck key integrated air defence and SAM (surface-to-air missile) sites near Tripoli, Misrata and Sirte," said Lieutenant Commander James Stockman, spokesperson of the AFRICOM based in Germany, as cited by international media.
A total of five Western states – the USA, the UK, France, Italy, and Canada – started the air and missile strikes on Gaddafi's regime – named Operation Odyssey Dawn – on Saturday, with Spain, Denmark, and some Arab nations such as the UAE, Qatar, Morocco, and Jordan expected to join in.
On Saturday, the US forces in the Mediterranean fired some 110 Tomahawk cruise missiles against Gaddafi targets. Those were followed in the early hours of Sunday by 19 US aircraft including three B2 stealth bombers, F15s and F16s.
The Western coalition has managed to impose a no-fly zone over Libya in less than 24 hours, according to US Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Admiral Mike Mullen.
Mullen told CNN on Sunday that a no-fly zone is "effectively in place," as the regime of Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi is fighting a popular uprising.
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