{"id":1810,"date":"2011-04-10T11:39:59","date_gmt":"2011-04-10T19:39:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/?p=1810"},"modified":"2011-04-10T11:39:59","modified_gmt":"2011-04-10T19:39:59","slug":"libya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/libya\/","title":{"rendered":"Libya"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 14.0px; font: 10.0px Verdana; color: #333233} p.p2 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 14.0px; font: 10.0px Verdana; color: #333233; min-height: 12.0px} --><a href=\"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/misrata.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1811\" title=\"misrata\" src=\"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/misrata-300x223.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"223\" srcset=\"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/misrata-300x223.jpg 300w, https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/misrata-60x45.jpg 60w, https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/misrata-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/misrata-269x201.jpg 269w, https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/misrata.jpg 310w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>A Libyan rebel commander has cited that NATO has been taking too long to respond to calls for airstrikes and is allowing people to die every day in Misratah.<\/p>\n<p>A UN sponsored mandate permits \u2018all necessary measures\u2019 to protect the citizens of Libya; NATO deputy spokeswoman, Carmen Romero, told the AFP news agency \u201cMisratah is our number one priority&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Despite NATO saying that allied airstrikes have reduced Gaddafi\u2019s military \u00a0by as much as a third, the rundown and disorganized rebels in the eastern part of the country, are in retreat from heavy bombardment by Gaddafi&#8217;s troops.<\/p>\n<p>RAF jets destroyed seven tanks in continuing air strikes after a \u2018friendly fire\u2019 incident on Thursday killed four rebels in a bomb attack. NATO offered no apology for the attack saying they were not aware that the opposition troops were using tanks.<\/p>\n<p>There are now 34 nations participating in the operations in Libya.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Libyan rebel commander has cited that NATO has been taking too long to respond to calls for airstrikes and is allowing people to die every day in Misratah. A UN sponsored mandate permits \u2018all&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1811,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[993,685,977,841],"class_list":["post-1810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured-news","tag-airstrike","tag-libya","tag-misrata","tag-un"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1810"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1813,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1810\/revisions\/1813"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}