Obama tells Atlantic magazine Cameron was distracted and unable to follow up adequately on the 2011 air strikes that eventually unseated Mummer Gadaffi.

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President Barak Obama says US and European air strikes prevented Mummer Gadaffi from massacring his own subjects.

But they had not brought democracy to Libya.

Obama criticises what he calls free riding European partners pushing the US to act against Gadaffi but refusing themselves to put skin in the game.

The Whitehouse subsequently issued a statement saying the US deeply values Britain’s contribution to shared national security and foreign policy objectives, underlining the special and essential bilateral relationship

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