This is actually pretty awesome. Bonus points for not telling the US. It is nice to see nations dealing with regional problems, even if the results are lackluster.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-28933070
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-28933070
What US officials have described as a pair of air strikes in and around Tripoli airport by jets from the United Arab Emirate is remarkable for a number of reasons.
Firstly the fact that the small Gulf state - staging from an airfield in Egypt - carried out the attacks at all.
This is very unusual - a mark of the growing unease of the region's traditional rulers at the upheavals prompted by radical Islamists.
Secondly there is the fact that neither the UAE, nor Egypt, told Washington in advance. It is a measure of the declining standing in the region of the Obama administration, which is widely seen as hesitant and vacillating.