About This Quiz
If you live in a country like the United States or France, your tax dollars go toward support for international peace-keeping efforts, so you have a stake in these efforts. Test your knowledge of no-fly zones with this quiz.The U.N. charter gives that international body the authority to authorize member states to impose a no-fly zone.
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The U.N. has imposed four no-fly zones since 1991, in northern and southern Iraq, Bosnia, and, most recently, in Libya.
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Usually no-fly zones are in place for years. In Iraq, the northern no-fly zone remained in place from 1991 to 2003.
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The Pentagon named the mission in Libya Operation Odyssey Dawn. The British call it Operation ELLAMY, and the French named it Operation Harmattan.
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Not only did Venezuela not send forces to participate, but its leader, Hugo Chavez, has expressed support for Gaddafi.
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Both B-2 stealth bombers and F-15 fighters are among the planes used in the no-fly zone operation.
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Gaddafi's handful of aircraft are mostly Soviet-made.
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The Libyan dictator's son Khamis toured the U.S. Air Force Academy in February, eight days before the uprising in Libya began.
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The Nimrod R-1 surveillance aircraft gets its name from Nimrod, the great-grandson of Noah, who was the king of Shimar.
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Jordan sent jets to participate in the no-fly zone operation.
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