Friday, June 10, 2011

Is NATO Targeting Qaddafi?

CNN seems to think so, according to Anderson Cooper's interview of Fran Townsend, which explicitly includes the label "Breaking News: NATO Now Targeting Qaddafi," even if the accompanying text has been revised to de-emphasize this point.

But this looks like a legal justification for strikes that have targeted those Qaddafi compounds co-located with command centers to date rather than an explicit declaration of policy.  A quote from one unnamed military officer in NATO conducting an informal conversation with a CNN subject matter expert does not constitute the policy of a 28-nation alliance, no matter how much CNN's producers might want it to be.

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