A US F-15 fighter jet has crashed in Libya, reportedly due to a technical fault, during a raid against anti-aircraft defences in the northeast of the country.

The US Africa command said on Tuesday that both its two-man crew ejected safely.
"Two crew members ejected from their US Air Force F-15E Strike Eagle when the aircraft experienced equipment malfunction over northeast Libya, March 21, 2011 at approximately 10:30 pm CET," the command, based in the western German city of Stuttgart, said in a statement.

"Both crew members ejected and are safe ... the cause of the incident is under investigation."
Nicole Dalrymple, a command spokeswoman, told AFP news agency that the crew had sustained minor injuries. She said the crash was not a result of hostile action.

Al Jazeera's Andrew Simmons, onboard the USS Kearsarge, a US Navy vessel stationed off Libya's coast, which was involved in the recovery of the crew, said two aircraft were involved in the rescue operation.
"The two pilots are in good condition. They are expected to be heading possibly to this ship which has excellent medical facilities on board.

"They were flying over northeast Libya on mission. It is not known exactly what they were engaged in."
Majdi Mohammed Abdul Jalil, 31, a worker on a farm near where the crash occured, said he had seen the plane come down.

"We saw a plane falling at about 11:45pm," he told AFP. "Then we heard an explosion about a minute later when it crashed.

"We were standing outside, we saw it falling and we followed it," he said.
"We saw one pilot who landed far away, and then we saw a helicopter which came and took him away ... We tried to talk to him and he tried to talk to us, but we couldn't understand each other."

Source: Al-Jazeera

What is happen in Libya is shameful for Muslim. In my opinion, we do not need foreign intervention to stop Gadaffi from attacking his own people. Gaddafi is truly mad man from Africa. And US is the evil f rom Europe.

To solve and to stop Gadaffi, we only require Eqyptian army which is capable to topple Gadaffi.

It is time for Muslim to have one entity which will defend all Muslim and to solve problem among them.

Whatever it is, we must stop US aggression towards Muslim world. US had only is this to launch a war againts any Muslim country as what they did in Iraq and Afghanistan.

We must unite.

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HELSINKI – The second in a pair of the largest cruise liners in the world — an extravagant behemoth spanning nearly four football fields, with a 3-D move theater, an open-air central park and room for 8,300 people — set sail Friday for its new home port in Florida.

The Allure of the Seas, which cruised out of the shipyard in Turku, southwestern Finland where it was built, faces its first big test Saturday, when it must squeeze under a Danish bridge, just one foot (30 centimeters) taller than the ship — even after its telescopic smokestacks are lowered.


The gigantic vessel is the sister ship of the Oasis of the Seas, which was also delivered to Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines last year with a price tag of about $1.5 billion. The Allure of the Seas is in the same price range, said Juha Heikinheimo, managing director of STX Finland, which constructed the vessel.

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