Saturday, July 2, 2011
Obama says U.S. playing limited role in Libyan: Report says different
It has reached a point where everything that comes out of Obams’s mouth has to be taken with a grain of salt. He couldn’t even get the ages of his own children right.
Take about being detached from reality.
Daily Mail
U.S. forces are still flying hundreds of bombing raids over Libya even though the Obama administration claims that American armed forces are only playing a limited role in the conflict.
Since NATO’s Operation Unified Protector took over from the American-led Operation Odyssey Dawn on 31 March, the U.S. has flown hundreds of strike missions, according to United States Africa Command (AFRICOM).
The White House originally claimed that U.S. planes were mostly providing intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance and played down the number of bombing raids.
However AFRICOM spokeswoman Nicole Dalrymple said: 'U.S. aircraft continue to fly support missions, as well as strike sorties under NATO tasking.
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