Western nations are stepping up their support for forces opposing Muammar al-Gaddafi, with one report suggesting that President Barack Obama has recently approved secret aid to support their fight against the Libyan leader's rule.
A delegation from the Libyan Transitional National Council is scheduled to meet Obama administration officials at the White House on Friday, a day after British Prime Minister David Cameron invited the council to establish a formal office in London.
In what Reuters bills as an exclusive report, the news agency says it has learned from unnamed U.S. government officials that President Obama has signed a presidential "finding" approving covert aid in the last two or three weeks.
Reuters says the Central Intelligence Agency declined to comment, and quotes White House spokesman Jay Carney saying he would follow the standard practice of not commenting on intelligence issues.
The agency quotes Carney as adding: "I will reiterate what the president said yesterday -- no decision has been made about providing arms to the opposition or to any group in Libya."
The announcement that the Libyan opposition had been favoured with a White House meeting came from Obama's National Security Advisor, Tom Donilon.
He said on Thursday he looked forward to welcoming a delegation headed by Dr. Mahmoud Gibril.
"This is Dr. Gibril’s first official visit to Washington as president of the Transitional National Council’s Executive Bureau," Donilon added. "Dr. Gibril will also be meeting senior administration officials and members of Congress during his visit.”
In a statement issued after meeting the the council in London, Prime Minister Cameron said the British presence in the opposition stronghold of Benghazi would be strengthened.
Cameron described Gaddafi as "tyrant who is still today killing innocent people.
“It is impossible to imagine a real future for Libya with Gaddafi in power," he added. "The council represents the future of Libya as much as Gaddafi represents its past.”
After a separate meeting, British Foreign Secretary William Hague said his government would provide more support "to help the protection of civilians", including bullet proof vests, police uniforms and communications equipment.
Hague said financial support for the opposition would also begin to flow soon through a "Temporary Financial Mechanism (TFM)".
He added that he and the Libyans had also agreed on what he said was "the importance of continuing to target Qadhafi’s forces and command and control centres to protect civilians... The tempo of strikes and military pressure will continue to increase."
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ITS AMAZING THAT OBAMA CAMERON THESE TWO HYPOCRITS WHO ARE KILLING INOCENT PEOPLE IN AFGHANISTAN ALLOWING PEOPLE TO GET MASSACRED IN BAHRAIN YEMEN; THESE TWO ARE WICKED AND THEY WILL GET THEIR JUST DESERTS. LISTEN THIS IS FOR THOSE WHO DON'T RECOGNISE THAT GADAFFI IS KILLING NO ONE THERE IS A CIVIL WAR AND THE NATO SIDE HAS TAKEN SIDES; IN TAKING SIDES THEY KILLINOCENT PEOPLE IN TRIPOLI EVERYNIGHT. LETS GET THE STORT RIGHT THESE TWO LEADERS DO NOT HAVE MONEY TO PAY FOR SCHOOLS AND HOSPITALS YET THE LIBYANS HE IS FIGHTING FOR LIVE VERY MIDDLECLASS EXISTENCE WITHOUT HAVING TO WORK FOR IT. THESE PEOPLE HAVE FREE EDUCATION HEALTH CARE FOR ALL THEIR LIOVES; SOMETHING WE IN THE WEST DONT GET. SO WISH GOVERNMENT WOULD YOY RATHER. THE GOVERNMENT THAT HAS THE PEOPLE AT HEART OR THE WEST WHERE THEY ARE DESTRPYING ALL SOCIALIST BODIES. FIRST POF ALL LIBYA DO NOT HAVE A DEBT CRISIS THEY OWE NO ONE MONEY THE WEST OWES TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS THEY COLLAPSED THE WHOLE WORLD ECONOMY; GADAFFI HAS NOT ENGAGED ANY OTHER SOVEREIGN COUNTRY IN WAR; AND THERE WAS NO BIG REVOLUTION WITH MASS KILLINGS ITS A FRAUD. THE PEOPLE IN THE EAST WANT TO BREAK AWAY FROM LIBYA. THEIR IS NO CONSPIRACY OTHER THAN THESE PEOPLE WHO ARE SELLING OUT AFRICA AND THE REST OF TRIPOLI TO THE WEST WHO HAVE NOTHING BETTER TO OFFER. LIBYA IS A SAFE NATION WITH OPPORTUNITIES MORE THAN WHAT MOST WESTERN COUNTRIES PROVIDE. THEIR STANDARD OF LIVING IS HIGHER THAN EUROPE SO HOW IS THE NATO AND US GOVERNMENTS GOING TO MAINTAIN THEIR STANDARDS OF LIVING ITS MUCH HIGHER THAN THEIR OWN NATIONS THEY CANT PROVIDE FREE HEALTH CARE NOR EDUCATION FOR THEIR OWN PEOPLE SO WHAT IS IT THAT THEY IGNORE REAL POVERTY AND DESPOTIC REGIMES THOSE WHO ARE TRULY CORRUPT AND WHO MURDER WITHOPUT THE ARMED AND MILITARY SUPPORT THT THEY GIVE TO THESE REBELS. HAVE YOU SEEN THE DESTRUCTION THAT THEY ARE DOING TO LIBYA. THIS IS ALL FOR MONEY THEY ARE CONMVINCED THEY ARE GOING TO OVERTHROW LIBYA THEY ARE MAKING IT HARD FOR MORE MILITANT AND JIHADIST GROUPS NOT TO JOIN WITH TRIPOLI TO DEFEAT THESE ZIONIST CRUSADERS WHO HAVE ISRAEL AS THEIR PRIME CONCERN.THESE PEOPEL ARE THOSE WHO ARE KILLING MUSLIMS DAILY WHO STIR UP RACE HATE TO PROMOTE THEIR ZIONIST AND NAZI PROPOGANDA. THEY HAVE NO LOVE FOR THESE BENGAHZIS THEY ARE AMUSED THAT THEY ARE SELLING OUT SO EASILY ; SHOULD THEY GET THEIR HANDS ON TRIPOLI THEY WILL SOON HAVE BASES IN NORTH AFRICA AND NOW WITH ISRAEL OVER IN PALESTINE THEY WOULD HAVE AFRICA AT ITS KNEES THESE PEOPLE IN THE EAST ARE TRAITORS AND LOVERS OF SATAN AND THE ZIONIST WHOM THEY ARE PROTECTING WITH THE FALSE KINGS ANDF AUTOCRATS WHO HAVE JOINED WITH THE CRUSADERS . AFRICA MUST NOT FALL UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES. " THE FALL OF THE WEST IS IMMINENT" THIS IS INDEED THE CRUSADES OF THE 21ST CENTURY. THE WORLD IS AT WAR REMINISCENT OF WHEN THE ITALIANS ATTACKED EHTIOPIA WHICH THEN CAPITULATED INTO A WORLD WAR WHEN MOST OF AFRICA WAS INVOLVED THE ITALIANS AND GERMANS WERE IN LIBYA THE FERNCH ENGLISH IN EGYPT; THESE BOYS ARE TRYING TO DUPLICATE THESE ADVENTURES THIS IS A GAME TO THEM THEY ARE TRYING TO BE REMEMBERED IN HISTORY WHILE AT THE SAME TIME STEALING THE OIL LEGALY AND PUTTING LIBYA IN DEBT WHILE TRYING TO CRIPPLE THE REVOLUTIONS WHICH IS PUTTING THE ISRAELIS AT A VERY VULNERABLE STAGE THEY ARE BEING ISOLATED BY THE MINUTE . WE HAVE THESE COLABERATORS WHO WANT TO EMPOWER ISRAEL "THAT IS VERY LOW" " ALL PRAISES DUE TO THE MOST HIGH THE ONE AND ONLY CREATOR OF ALL THINGS THEIR IS NONE GREATER2
OBAMA IS A WAR MONGER, THOSE WHO AWARDED HIM THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WOULD BE BITING THEIR FINGERS NOW. THEY HAVE MADE A MOCKERY OF THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE. TODAY ELDERS OF LIBYA WHO WERE ON THEIR WAY TO MEET THE SO-CALLED REBELS IN BENGHAZI WERE BOMBED AND MURDERED IN COLD BLOOD. IN AFRICA WE SETTLE DISPUTES BY HAVING THE ELDERS AND TRIBAL LEADERS TO MEDIATE BETWEEN BOTH SIDES AND THAT IS WHAT THOSE ELDERS WERE GOING TO DO IN BENGHAZI TO FIND AN AMICABLE AFRICAN SOLUTIONS TO THE PROBLEMS CREATED BY EUROPE AND AMERICA IN THEIR COUNTRY. THE TIME HAS COME FOR THIS MURDERERS TO STOP THIS AGGRESSION AGAINST AN AFRICAN COUNTRY, DEMOCRACY WOULD COME TO LIBYA, NOT BY THE BOMBING. YOU AS A FOREIGN LEADER IN A DIFFERENT CONTINENT DO NOT HAVE THE RIGHT TO ASK THE LEADER OF ANY COUNTRY, "YOU MUST GO NOW". WHEN IS THE AU GOING TO SAY ENOUGH IS ENOUGH OF THIS BOMBING AND DESTRUCTION OF AN AFRICAN COUNTRY.
..... AND THAT'S WHAT WE ALL AFRICANS ARE WAITING FOR; WHEN IS THE AU GOING TO SAY ENOUGH IS ENOUGH ABOUT THIS BOMBING UPON LIBYA AND LIBYANS FROM EXTERNAL FORCES?? WHEN AU?? IS THE AU ITSELF FILL OF TRAITORS, OR IS THAT THE AU IS STILL FILL WITH COMPLEX INDIVIDUALS WHO DON'T KNOW HOW TO HANDLE SUCH PRECEDENTS BUT ONLY THEIR POCKETS ?? IS IT ?? IF SO, TIME WOULD SOON TELL !!!
I made Obama the president. I did not make Hillary the president. I voted for Obama because I believed in his approach against "politicis of fear and war". I made him the president so that he takes our country in that direction. Why is he listening to Hillary? Why is he Hillary's yes man? Why isnt he refusing war as the option and advocating for diplomacy? What happened to all his promises of being against "policies of fear and war" ... was that all just drama for our entertainment?
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