The League's leader, Umberto Bossi, was already seething at Mr Berlusconi's failure to consult him over joining the air offensive in Libya.
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The BBC's Mark Doyle in Mali says a big international troop build-up is continuing ahead of a probable French-led air and ground offensive on Gao and other desert cities.
Back in 2008, the BBC apologized to actor Andrew Sachs after two radio presenters -- Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross -- left a series of messages on his phone while on-air, including offensive references to his granddaughter.
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Coalition forces have been providing air support and intelligence, but the offensive is the first real test of the Iraqi security services.
Yet even so, the Libyan operation would have been impossible without US involvement - both in actively bombing Colonel Gaddafi's air defences during the early days of the offensive, and in providing extensive intelligence and other support later.
The air force has also conducted heavy bombing during the offensive, they said.
Offensive operations will still rely upon outside support for air power, intelligence and logistics.
When this was discovered by air reconnaissance in October 1962, Kennedy imposed a quarantine on all offensive weapons bound for Cuba.
The Air Force and Navy were assigned most of the responsibility for the offensive part of the nuclear mission, and the Army got most of the responsibility for the defenses.
It is also never going to air content during a family-viewing hour replete with language it deems offensive or what it perceives to be crude stereotypes.
The BBC reserves the right to take any contestant off-air and disqualify them from the competition at any time if they display offensive, abusive or any other kind of unsuitable behaviour.
"It does seem very odd that Jonathan Ross can be back broadcasting having made obscene, insulting remarks on the air, and Carol Thatcher, who said something which is allegedly highly offensive but which I rather doubt was meant to be so, in private, should be banned in this way, " he said.
The BBC's Ian Pannell, who is travelling with UK troops in Helmand, says the latest phase of the offensive involves a major land assault, with soldiers backed up by artillery and air support.
The military thinking behind a cruiser such as the Ticonderoga class is to create an offensive warship that will also provide defensive firepower for a carrier group or amphibious operation under air or sea attack.
U.S. President Bill Clinton on Saturday said that an increased Serb offensive in Kosovo showed even more reason for NATO allies to "stay the course" and continue the air attacks on Serb targets.
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