Coming up on last week's pledge to end military operations in Libya on Friday, the Secretary General of NATO, Anders Fogh Rasmussen said the military operation in Libya will be completed on October 31, the Associated Press (AP) reports.
His announcement came a day after the Security Council of the United Nations adopted a resolution to lift the no-fly zone over Libya.
Speaking from Brussels, Rasmussen said that after the death of Qaddafi, military operations have been able to stop quickly points out triumphantly that "Operation Unified Protector is one of the most successful in NATO's history,''as the AP.
US President Barack Obama was also full of praise for the operation. Commenting on the speech of late night hit show The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Obama told host operations in Libya "did not cost us one billion U.S. dollars," and no American soldiers were killed or wounded.
Price of success
Speaking on March 31, Bishop Giovanni Martinelli Innocenzo, Vicar Apostolic of Tripoli, reported that "air raids have called humanitarian killed dozens of civilians in various areas of Tripoli." The head cleric went on to say "in the district of Buslim, a building that collapsed because of the bombing, killing 40 people," the agency quoted FEDES, the information service of the Pontifical Mission Societies.
However, despite the decision to close our eyes to the number of victims, one of the few cases of the alliance could not deny the guilty on June 19 was a missile, which NATO has killed nine civilians.
Attacks of this nature occurred on a daily basis during the intense bombing campaign.
Speaking in September, the Health Minister in the new Libyan government estimates that at least 30,000 people were killed and 50,000 wounded during the first six months of the war. Some, however, considered that the real figure could be much higher.
Written in September, Thomas C. Mountain, a freelance journalist currently living in Africa, who was a member of the U.S. delegation to peace for the first time in Libya in 1987, said that NATO had dropped over 30,000 bombs on Libya, with an average of "two civilians killed in each attack." This mountain has estimated that some 60,000 civilians were killed by Libyan NATO air strikes the only end of August.
Shortly after, when rebel forces began the siege of Sirte, Moussa Ibrahim, a spokesman for the now defunct Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, told Reuters by telephone on September 19 that "in the last 17 days, more 2,000 inhabitants in the city of Sirte was killed in air strikes by NATO. "
From today, about 26,000 out NATO strikes of 9600 and missions have been conducted by NATO, with an average of four bombs used by attack.
