More on Arab League Call for a Libya No-Fly Zone

Juan Cole 03/13/2011

Aljazeera English reports on the Arab League’s call for the UN Security Council to impose a no-fly zone on Libya.

Most sources are calling the resolution unanimous, but Xinhua says that Algeria and Syria abstained.

Algeria has been accused by the rebels in Benghazi of helping Muammar Qaddafi.

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Juan Cole is the founder and chief editor of Informed Comment. He is Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History at the University of Michigan and an adjunct professor, Gulf Studies Center, Qatar University. He is author of, among many other books, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Follow him on Twitter at @jricole or the Informed Comment Facebook Page