Libya: Britain prepares 'bunker buster' bombs for assaults

[alp227]

Source: The Guardian

Britain has ratcheted up the pressure on Colonel Muammar Gaddafi by preparing to load heavy "bunker buster" bombs on RAF jets ready to attack his compounds in and around Tripoli.

Paveway bombs, weighing 2,000lbs, the largest in the RAF's arsenal, have been dispatched to Gioia del Colle in southern Italy where RAF Tornado and Typhoon jets are based. While the Apache's cannon and Hellfire missiles are used against small or moving targets, the Paveway bombs are expected to be used against bunkers underneath the Gaddafi regime's Bab al-Azizia compound in Tripoli and elsewhere.

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/may/29/libya-bunker-buster-bombs-assaults

[DavidDvorkin]

1. I wonder if this was announced

in the hopes that it would make Gaddafi give up.

[formercia]

2. Final Warning.

No hole is deep enough to hide in.

[xchrom]

3. i hear tell britain has a deficit problem, cutting back on schools, nhs -- all kinds of shit..

where'd the fuckin money come from this?!?!

[Dokkie]

4. when it comes to going after the

largest oil reserves in Africa, I dont think the british govt minds cuts to social programs in order to get their murderous hands on it. Wasn't all this supposed to be about enforcing a no-fly zone.

[xchrom]

6. They moved the goal posts. Nt

[PurityOfEssence]

5. ...but we're not targeting him, and it isn't about regime change

A ton of high explosives can make quite a dent, and undoubtedly protect lots of civilians...

[Arctic Dave]

7. What do all the war apologist have to say for themselves now?

Limited my ass. Protecting civilians my ass. This is violent overthrow of a country so the victors can steal the countries resources for their benefit, pure and simple.

[daleo]

8. I don't see how this can end without NATO troops on the ground

The rebels don't seem like they can do it on their own.

This has been one continual escalation.

[bongbong]

9. Da Fax

The only clear facts that emerge from the confusion about Libya is that French & British oil companies will get the oil contracts after the eventual occupation.