{"id":25154,"date":"2011-03-18T04:00:42","date_gmt":"2011-03-18T04:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/reuters-u-n-_okays_military_action_on_libya\/"},"modified":"2011-03-18T04:00:42","modified_gmt":"2011-03-18T04:00:42","slug":"reuters-u-n-_okays_military_action_on_libya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=25154","title":{"rendered":"Reuters&#8211;U.N. okays military action on Libya"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The United Nations authorised military action to curb Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi on Thursday, hours after he threatened to storm the rebel bastion of Benghazi overnight, showing &#8220;no mercy, no pity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will come, zenga, zenga. House by house, room by room,&#8221; he said in a radio address to the eastern city.<\/p>\n<p>Al Jazeera television showed thousands of Benghazi residents in a central square celebrating the U.N. vote, waving anti-Gaddafi tricolour flags and chanting defiance of the man who has ruled for four decades. Fireworks burst over the city.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/uk.reuters.com\/article\/2011\/03\/17\/uk-libya-idUKLDE71Q0MP20110317\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United Nations authorised military action to curb Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi on Thursday, hours after he threatened to storm the rebel bastion of Benghazi overnight, showing &#8220;no mercy, no pity.&#8221; &#8220;We will come, zenga, zenga. House by house, room<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=25154\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,50,202,144,119,531],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-africa","category-foreign-relations","category-globalization","category-libya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}