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From Simon Rogers, the Guardian:  [W]ho's contributing to Operation Unified Protector? That's the official name for the attacks on the Gadaffi regime's bases and tanks by Nato aircraft and ships, plus the enforcement of the no-fly zone and the arms embargo.

Data journalism can help us find out. Nato, which has been running operations in Libya since the beginning of April, doesn't give out details of individual member's efforts so we went to each country's defence ministry direct to find out for ourselves.

We wanted to know the answers to some specific questions, ending at the end of the first week of May. We set some very specific parameters: details for the first week of operations, operations taking place week commencing 2 May and totals for the whole operation, ending 5 May. We asked each country:

• How many aircraft, ships and military personnel are in the region?
• How many attacks and sorties has each country been involved in?
• Which base are they operating from?

By combining official responses, scraping the defence ministry websites of each country and news reports, we assembled the most complete breakdown of the Nato operation yet published. . . .

 Nato operations in Libya by country

Country; # of personnel; # of air-craft; # of sorties flown; # of cruise missiles fired

Belgium     170     6     60      
Bulgaria     160     0     0      
Canada      560     11     358      
Denmark    120     4     161     0
France         800     29     1,200      
Greece             0     0     0
Italy                         12     600      
Jordan          30     12           
Netherlands     200     7           
Norway      140     6     100      
Qatar            60     8           
Romania    205                
Spain         500     7           
Sweden     122     8     78     0
Turkey                    6           
UAE            35     12           
UK         1300     28     1,300     18
US         8507     153     2,000     228
TOTALS     12,909 309     5,857     246

Download this data.  (graphic: Guardian)