Business Recorder - News https://www.brecorder.com/ Business Recorder en-Us Copyright 2026 Thu, 13 Aug 2026 15:25:36 +0500 Thu, 13 Aug 2026 15:25:36 +0500 60 French plane opens fire on 'threatening' vehicle in Libya https://www.brecorder.com/news/7735/french-plane-opens-fire-on-threatening-vehicle-in-libya <p class="MsoPlainText"><img style="margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; float: left;" src="https://i.brecorder.com/images/stories/pics2011/mar/libya_airstrike_400.jpg" width="400" height="271" />PARIS: A French war plane opened fire on a vehicle in Libya at 1645 GMT on Saturday as it enforced a UN resolution calling for a no-fly zone and protection of rebels from Moamer Qadhafi's forces, the French military said.</p> <p class="MsoPlainText">"We opened fire at 5:45 pm (French time) on an unspecified vehicle," army spokesman Colonel Thierry Burckhard told journalists, adding that the French military was "assured of the threat" the vehicle presented.</p> <p><center><b><i> </i></b></center></p> <p> </p> <p> <center><b><i>Copyright AFP (Agence France-Presse), 2011</i></b><i> </i></center></p> PARIS: A French war plane opened fire on a vehicle in Libya at 1645 GMT on Saturday as it enforced a UN resolution calling for a no-fly zone and protection of rebels from Moamer Qadhafi's forces, the French military said.

"We opened fire at 5:45 pm (French time) on an unspecified vehicle," army spokesman Colonel Thierry Burckhard told journalists, adding that the French military was "assured of the threat" the vehicle presented.

 

 

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