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The Italian president lashes out at the UK for not informing his country before launching the operation to rescue an Italian and British hostage, which resulted in their deaths.
As regime change unfolds in Libya, Channel 4 News also learns a recent intelligence assessment believed Gaddafi would still be in power in September.
As western planes and missiles continue to attack Libyan military hardware, defence analyst Anthony Tucker-Jones assesses the air war and refutes Gaddafi’s claims of mounting civilian casualties.
Pro-Gaddafi air strikes on rebels in East Libya could hasten calls for a no-fly zone, even without unanimous support in the UN Security Council, Channel 4 News learns.
Gary Gibbon
Foreign Secretary William Hague told the Commons that there was a “serious misunderstanding” about the role of the team he despatched to Libya with the PM’s backing. You could say that, blogs Gary Gibbon.
Libya’s eastern port of Ras Lanuf comes under air attack as pro-Gaddafi forces drive rebels back, as Channel 4 News International Editor Lindsey Hilsum questions the movements of UK special forces.
Amateurish, naive and embarrassing – that’s the insider’s verdict from an ex-SAS instructor speaking to Channel 4 News about the failed Special Forces mission to Benghazi.
With the news that Linda Norgrove may have been killed by a hand grenade thrown by one of her would-be rescuers, our Chief Correspondent Alex Thomson looks at the charged background against which aid agencies have to operate in Afghanistan.
Jon Snow
We were all spooked by it – the idea of a nuclear holocaust that would obliterate the world. As boys we talked about it a lot, at no time more so than after reading Nevil Shute’s ‘On the Beach’. Set in Australia this was apocalyptic and desperately human account of the end of the planet.…