Following U.N. Vote, France Vows Libya Action ‘Soon’ - ALAN COWELL, DAN BILEFSKY and MARK LANDLER

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/19/world/africa/19libya.html?hp

Hours after the United Nations Security Council voted to authorize military action and the imposition of a no-flight zone on Libya to try to avert a rout of rebels by forces loyal to Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, French and British officials said on Friday that military action would start soon. News reports said warplanes from the two countries would spearhead the attack.

François Baroin, a French government spokesman, told RTL radio that airstrikes would come “rapidly,” perhaps within hours, following the United Nations resolution late Thursday authorizing “all necessary measures” to impose a no-flight zone.