Cameron Announces Extra U.K. Ground-Attack Jets for Libya

Britain will deploy four extra Panavia Tornado GR4 ground-attack aircraft to southern Italy to help prevent attacks on Libyan civilians by Muammar Qaddafi’s forces, Prime Minister David Cameron said.

“Four new additional Tornados will be deploying in the next couple of days, which will mean we will have 10 Typhoons for the mission in terms of the no-fly zone, and we’ll have a total of 12 Tornado ground-attack aircraft involved in operations,” Cameron told reporters as he flew to Italy to visit aircrew involved in the mission at the Gioia del Colle base.