Breaking: US Launches cruise missiles on Libya [3:45 p.m. ET, 10:45 p.m. in Libya] The U.S. military has launched its first missiles in Libya against Moammar Gadhafi's forces, a senior Defense Department official said Saturday.Commentsview comments in forum Page 1 You need to be a member of CKA and be logged into the site, to comment on news. |
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The US Pentagon said more than 100-110 Tomahawk cruise missiles from US and supposedly British ships and submarines had been fired at 20 targets. The Western coalition is reportedly targeting Libyan air defences, especially around Tripoli and the west Libyan city of Misrata.
"This is the first phase of what will likely be a multi-phase operation," U.S. Vice Admiral William Gortney, director of the Pentagon's Joint Staff, said at a briefing in Washington after Obama spoke.
"These strikes were carefully coordinated with our coalition partners," Gortney said, adding that most of the targets — in what's being called Operation Odyssey Dawn — were on the Mediterranean coast and that information was still coming in because it was night.
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Per Tomahawk, $US $569,000.usf.
$62.6 million US for 110 of them.