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Souda Bay plays key role in campaign against Gaddafi

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Souda Bay military base in Crete has been acting as a host to alliance members involved in the campaign against Colonel Gaddafi.

It’s housing their airforces and providing logistic support and has been since late March.

The base has been working 24 hours a day since the start of Libyan campaign and it’s all coordinated by the Greeks.

Based there are 6 fighters from Qatar, their two transport helicopters and the 220 Qataris taking part in the operation.

Also 120 Norweigans and their six F16s and more than 200 French personnel and their fourteen fighters.

From Souda Bay it takes the jets just 40 minutes to reach the Libyan coast.

As the military operation continues Souda Bay still has to manage the civilian aircraft that land and take off from the same runways.