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| Powers plot 'post-Kadhafi' as rebels eye cash |
| 2011-06-09 |
| Key powers met Thursday to map out what Washington calls an inevitable "post-Kadhafi Libya" as more signs emerged the strongman wants out and more than one billion dollars flowed toward the rebels. The United States joined Australia and Spain in recognising the rebels' National Transitional Council (NTC) as the legitimate representative of the Libyan people, following the example of several others countries including France, Italy and Britain. Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade, meanwhile, urged Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi to step down, "the sooner the better," as he became the first head of state to visit the rebels' eastern bastion of Benghazi. Thank you Mr. Sarkozy for 'suggesting' that the president of an important French client state visit. We should do a few more of these. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and counterparts from NATO and other countries participating in air strikes against Kadhafi's forces wound up talks on Libya in the United Arab Emirates capital Abu Dhabi. "Kadhafi's days are numbered. We are working with our international partners through the UN to plan for the inevitable: a post-Kadhafi Libya," Clinton told participants, according to her prepared remarks. War Powers Act, you ask! We work for and take our orders from the UN now, not some silly concept like "national interest" "Time is on our side," she said, adding the international military, economic and political pressure was mounting on the Libyan colonel to abandon his four decades in power. |
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