Friday, March 25, 2011

France: "War in Libya will not end soon!"


(Reuters) - "...  The African Union (AU) said it was planning to facilitate talks to help end war in the oil producing country. But NATO said its no fly zone operation could last three months, and France cautioned the conflict would not end soon. ...... "I doubt that it will be days," Admiral Edouard Guillaud, the head of French armed forces, told France Info radio. "I think it will be weeks. I hope it will not take months." Guillaud said a French plane destroyed an army artillery battery near the eastern frontline town of Ajdabiyah, 150 km (90 miles) south of Benghazi. Ajdabiyah is strategically important for both sides as it commands the coastal highway to the west...."

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