Canada to send warship to the waters off Libya
Posted Mar 1, 2011 01:54:32 PM.
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The Canadian navy is preparing to send a warship to the waters off Libya, adding to the international military buildup in the region.
Defence sources say the formal announcement will come later today.
The Halifax-based frigate is expected to join an American carrier battle group led by the nuclear-powered USS Enterprise.
News of the short-notice deployment came on the same day as a Canadian military Hercules transport, en route to pick up stranded oil workers, was turned back from Libya.
The British have used one of their frigates, HMS Cumberland, to evacuate its citizens from the port city of Benghazi.
A spokesman for the Ottawa-based overseas headquarters confirmed an air force C-130J Hercules was waved off its mission on Tuesday about half way between Malta and the troubled north African nation.
