Like the Cavalry...

...sweeping down over the hill:

Ottawa to send military plane to evacuate Canadians from Libya

And it seems to be a Canadian plane, too!!!

Some good stuff in the comments, too:

"This plane is the one that NDP & Liberal parties were against its purchase. How short sighted they are !!!!!!!!"

and

"When Paul Martin was at the helm, he depended on the Russians to supply LEASED air transport when the DART team's equipment was ferried to the tsunami stricken region of Asia."

and

"Last night I read on either Guardian or NYT that Gadhafi loyalists are manning the anti-aircraft missle stations near the airport and have orders to shoot foreign aircraft down. I am not sure that any landing rights permits really mean anything anymore. The situation is so volatile that those permits could be reneged on at any moment on Gadhafi's whim. No insurance company would underwrite a charter flight in and out of Tripoli under those conditions. Plans B, C, D, E, F etc are all necessary now and let's hope one of them works."

and

"The irony of the loons who oppose any and all military expenditure by Canada, are the same ones (on these boards) who are now calling for the instant dispatch of Canada's (mostly non-existant) military capability to rescue people 9000 KMs away!

Toooooo much."

Good luck. Evacuations have not gone well, so far.