in the natural revolutions as it were in tunisia and egypt and that was author and journalist afshin rattansi well the reasons behind the intervention in libya are constantly being question critics say it's strange that libya is being targeted in particular when there are several other violent uprisings in the arab world r.t. to turn a bushel now reports on what else could be motivating western powers. coalition leaders claim they are just in forcing the no fly zone over libya but have been engaged in widespread and heavy attacks on colonel gadhafi as ground forces and buildings and targets linked to his regime so what are the real motives for france the u.k. and u.s. leading the attack on libya some say it's pure vengeance but they're certainly settling accounts and taking revenge turkey says it's disturbed by france's eagerness to invade but experts believe ankara shouldn't be surprised gadhafi is accused of ordering the bombing of u.t.a. flight seven seven two which killed fifty four french men and women in one thousand nine hundred eighty nine a u.k. court found that gadhafi agents the ye

nato experts say it will be hard for washington to downplay its activity in libya or journalist afshin rattansi says the alliance has expanded role in the operation does not mean that the u.s. is no longer in charge. they say it's a nato operation turkey is expressing a lot of reservations and as to whether it's gone too far i think we can bet that there are already s.a.'s and other forces on the ground and as for a nato which is somehow european compared to u.s. led in terms of this mission i think it's absurd the united states of course is still behind it even though robert gates and so on had a lot of reservations about it there were five abstentions for u.n. resolution one thousand seventy three and one hundred the african union we just don't care about them because they unanimously didn't want what is going on now as for the arab league a very very iffy support for this although for them it could be a win win as well you wouldn't see any tunisian or egyptian help for this nature were operational tool i think that that question needs to be answered by all these nato leaders why do you think