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| U.S. fighter jet crashes in Libya |
| By cnn.com |
| Published: 03/22/2011 |
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A U.S. Air Force fighter jet has crashed in Libya, the U.S. military said Tuesday. Both crew members ejected from the aircraft. One has been recovered and coalition forces are looking for the other, said Kenneth Fidler, a spokesman for U.S. Africa Command. Both crew members aboard the F-15 Strike Eagle jet -- a pilot and a weapons officer -- suffered minor injuries, the military said. The plane had flown from Europe to Libya as part of a coalition attack on Libyan air defense targets meant to protect civilians in that country. The action was authorized by the United Nations Security Council. The crash was "not due to enemy or hostile actions," Fidler said. It came after a U.S. official said an international mission to weaken the force of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi has stopped the ruler's momentum. But criticism and questions about the operation persist, with no clear answer on who will take over command of the military operation and what the end-game or exit strategy will be. Missiles and anti-aircraft fire pierced the night sky in Tripoli hours before dawn broke Tuesday, the fourth day of the multinational effort to protect civilians from attacks by pro-Gadhafi forces. The United States fired 20 Tomahawk cruise missiles into Libya in the past 12 hours, a military spokeswoman said early Tuesday morning. A total of 159 Tomahawks have been fired by the United States and the United Kingdom since Operation Odyssey Dawn started Saturday. The mission includes enforcement of a no-fly zone. Cmdr. Monica Rousselow also said one of the three U.S. submarines that participated at the beginning of the operation has since departed the area. She declined to say which submarine. The international operation has targeted air defense sites and command centers. But Gadhafi himself has not been targeted, and there are no plans to kill the leader, said Gen. Carter Ham, the head of U.S. forces in Africa. "I could see accomplishing the military mission, which has been assigned to me, and the current leader would remain the current leader," he said. "We think we have been very effective in degrading his ability to control his regime forces." Read More. |
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