Several European countries are sending planes to evacuate their citizens from strife-torn Libya as continuing violence threatens economic projects.
Italy, Greece and the Netherlands are sending transport planes to Libya to get their citizens out. Turkey, Austria and Portugal have already done so while airports were still open.
Most of the evacuation aircraft are now sitting on runways in Europe, because it's now nearly become impossible to use air transport since runways at Benghazi airport have been destroyed in the anti-government uprising and the Tripoli airport is hardly functioning because many flight controllers have not shown up for work.
The time has probably come for the EU and Turkey, or the UN, if they can get their act together, to temporarily take military control of the Benghazi Airport to fly expats out instead of waiting while the situation worsens.
EU-Digest
