March 17th, 2011
06:39 PM ET

U.N. Security Council approves no-fly zone over Libya

The U.N. Security Council on Thursday voted to approve a no-fly zone extending over all of Libya to try to halt Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi's mounting attacks against rebel positions.

The resolution states  that "all necessary means" can be used to enforce the no-fly zone. Flights to provide humanitarian aid, medicine or for evacuations are exempt.

The vote was 10 for, none against and five abstentions.

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  1. Planet X

    Israel is becoming a nation. http://nopolicestate.blogspot.com

    March 17, 2011 at 7:44 pm | Report abuse |
    • JaZZ7

      I can see your head spinning Cesar

      March 18, 2011 at 12:19 pm | Report abuse |
  2. Alex

    Too little...too late

    March 17, 2011 at 8:19 pm | Report abuse |
  3. Cesar

    Too little, too late

    March 17, 2011 at 8:36 pm | Report abuse |
  4. bobo

    Saudi Arabia and Bahrain need to be next.

    March 17, 2011 at 10:39 pm | Report abuse |
  5. nicholee

    So, does this no fly zone mean that the sailors deployed out there will not be able to come home on time?? Ships are supposed to be home sometime this summer.. am I gonna have to wait even longer??

    March 17, 2011 at 10:58 pm | Report abuse |
  6. Future

    Bravo 2 USA and Security council but Shame on 5 faceless regimes!nw tt u doing Ghaddafi, please passby Mugabe and Gabgo as well.if u need foot soldiers just tweet me ,am ready 2 die liberating fellow Mankind!

    March 18, 2011 at 2:14 am | Report abuse |
  7. Chagas

    What is the use of spending 300 million dollars a day to enforce a no fly zone? The Muslim middle east has fought wars for centuries only to replace one tyrant with another.

    March 18, 2011 at 3:08 am | Report abuse |
  8. Womancakes

    Come on people now....smile on your brother....everybody get together....try to love one another...Right Now!!!! Sing it with me

    March 18, 2011 at 8:33 am | Report abuse |
  9. Planet X

    Israel is becoming a nation. http://nopolicestate.com

    March 18, 2011 at 12:13 pm | Report abuse |
  10. Sudden

    Ghadaffi use tanks – not airplains

    March 18, 2011 at 6:30 pm | Report abuse |
  11. Mary J. Roberts

    I am disturbed over comments that Obama has been timid and unleaderlike about Libya. We as a nation have been out trying to fix the rest of the world meanwhile we have a country whose infrastructure is collapsing (I live in Detroit–the finest example of that). Who desiignated us as thecaretaker and police of the world? Before you decide you can take care of the rest of the world you need to start at home-spending some of those defense dollars on education and childcare in our ghettos. We as a nation are involved in two wars financed on borrowed money–who are we to think we should lead a war in a third country-let's let France or Britain take this one on. .

    March 18, 2011 at 10:48 pm | Report abuse |
  12. Duane Seigler

    http://libyarevoltcontinues.blogspot.com/

    March 20, 2011 at 3:13 pm | Report abuse |
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