Three days after rejecting a ceasefire the Libyan rebels today (14/4/11) warned that the world was just days away from seeing a massacre in Misrata. Just as the warning that the world was days away from a massacre in Benghazi came on the day the United Nation's Security Council (UNSC) met today's warning came on the day that NATO foreign ministers were meeting in Berlin to discuss the operation against Libya.
Britain and France were intent on using this meeting to get other NATO members to widen the scope of the operation and contribute aircraft to the war effort. Although in diplomatic circles it's strong statement to make I think it's fair to say that they failed in this objective. No country committed any aircraft, Spain announced that it won't be renewing it's involvement and America pointedly stated it's commitment to "the NATO operation" with the "and nothing more" being left unsaid.
As the meeting broke up in Berlin, Tripoli was rocked by a series of large explosions as aircraft dropped between 7 and 10 bombs on the city. As almost exactly the same thing happened yesterday (13/4/11) as the contact group meeting broke up in Doha rather then being a legitimate attack on a military target this was more of a terror attack designed to intimidate Qaddafi and the people of Tripoli by sending the message that the coalition is still together and can strike anywhere and at any time.
What is interesting is that NATO have now denied that this attack, which I've seen footage of, ever took place. Either this means that the attack was carried out by British, French or Qatari aircraft operating unilaterally outside of the NATO command structure or NATO don't want to admit that this is what the operation has come too.
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