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The Spanish Defense Ministry said on Saturday that the country has sent four F-18 fighter jets and a refueling aircraft to Italy to take part in the operation over Libya starting on Sunday, AFP reported.
"These planes will carry out patrol missions and will be operational from tomorrow (Sunday)," a statement issued by the Spanish Defense Ministry read.
On Saturday, Norway announced that six Norwegian F-16 fighter jets will be joining the Western-led military operations against Libya over the next few days.
The warplanes will take off right at the beginning of next week and will be based in Sicily, Italy, according to the announcement.
Denmark has announced that it will be contributing up to six F-16 warplanes and a transport plane for the Western-led intervention into Libya.
On Saturday, Danish Prime Minister Lars Loekke Rasmussen said parliament supports the decision to deploy warplanes to Libya.
Foreign forces launched airstrikes against Libya after officials of a number countries meeting in Paris on Saturday ordered a large-scale military intervention into the country in order to end the assaults on civilians launched by Libyan ruler Muammar Gaddafi's forces.
Representatives of the United States, Britain, France, the United Arab Emirates, and Qatar attended the meeting.
There have been reports that French warplanes have begun firing on Libyan government troops in the eastern city of Benghazi, which is the stronghold of anti-government forces.
The French intervention came after forces loyal to the 68-year-old Libyan ruler began closing in on revolutionaries in eastern Libya, despite a ceasefire declared by Gaddafi on Friday.
In addition, US and British forces fired a barrage of at least 110 Tomahawk cruise missiles at Libya targeting Gaddafi's air defenses on Saturday. The missiles reportedly struck pro-government forces.
Libyan anti-government forces, inspired by revolutions that toppled authoritarian rulers in neighboring Tunisia and Egypt, are fighting to unseat Gaddafi after suffering under his despotic rule for over 41 years.
Source: MP/AGB/HGL
Comment: As major earth changes threaten the entire planet, the only thing our psychopathic leaders can think of is more war....
Maybe thats why they are doing it...boarding the cart to get in on the harvest are now "Danmark" Norway and Spain...there is a lot of oil out there as well as other goodies. So What!
Well when the crunch comes and the masses get cooked and mashed and washed away there's going to be a remaining world out there in which "they" gotta survive.
Since there is no new technology in place to take over from fossil fuel and Nuke Power is very dodgy for safety reasons getting rid of multi millions by a natural disaster is a good bet. So in order to survive the potential "incoming" they got to have a slice of the cake at the expense of others - as always, and as has been shown throughout history at its various levels....apart from folowing the money, survival is now the name of the game.
This is just a viewpoint it could be slightly different but it all comes down to the same thing.
Since Libya/Gaddafi is the provider of cheap oil to most euro countries, they dont want the Yanks from copping the lot, right?