NATO military operations in Libya Ended October 31

After the death of Muammar Gaddafi, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) announced that it will put an end to military operations in Libya on 31 October. However, NATO will still be consulted with the United Nations and Libya temporal authority.
"We agreed that our mission has been very close to completion and we have taken the initial decision that the mission of Operation Unified Protector ends on October 31," said the Head of NATO, Anders Fogh Rasmussen as reported by AFP on Saturday (22/10/2011).
Rasmussen announced that after a dialogue with representatives of 28 NATO member states in Brussels, Belgium. Added to him, he still will consult further with a number of parties that decision.
"Meanwhile, I will consult with the UN and the National Transitional Council (temporary authority Libya)," he added.
"I am very proud of our achievements, along with our partners, including a number of countries from different regions," said Rasmussen.
Although Libya has ended its mission in the future, manyatakan Rasmussen, NATO will continue to monitor the situation of Libya from afar. This is in order to ensure the security of Libyan civilians.
"Monitoring the situation and maintain the capacity to respond to threats against civilians, if needed," he said.
When asked about the NATO air strikes against Khadafi car entourage near Sirte, Thursday (20/10) and then, Rasmussen emphasized that NATO has never made the Gaddafi as a target of attack.
According to Rasmussen, NATO troops know their location from previous experience. Transatlantic military alliance that helped NATO did not even realize hiding Saif al-Islam, son of Gaddafi.
Rasmussen also urged the transitional government of Libya to respect human rights, whoever it is. "Life is respect for human rights, including total transparency," he said.
According to the calculations, all the conduct of military operations in Libya, NATO has conducted 26,156 air attacks, including the 9364 surprise attack. NATO began his mission to run the UN mandate to protect civilians daro threat Gaddafi regime in Libya on March 31, 2011 ago. At that time, NATO took over control of air and sea who previously held the French and English.
On Thursday (20/10) and then, NATO aircraft managed to find a convoy of 11 vehicles containing Gaddafi support troops. The convoy was later revealed to be part of a convoy Yeng larger consists of 75 vehicles to maneuver around Sirte.
But the NATO attack only succeeded in crippling one vehicle only. Nevertheless, it is able to disrupt the convoy vehicles and make a lot of changing directions.
After that, the NATO troops ambushed another convoy consisting of about 20 vehicles. Approximately 10 of them successfully destroyed. And this time the attack on Gaddafi.
"This attack is much contributed to the arrest," said NATO was alluding to Gaddafi.