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African concern over Libya arms drops http://pulse.me/s/rGOZ
AU Commissioner Jean Ping, who chairs a meeting of African leaders in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea, on Thursday, said that weapons distributed in Libya would contribute to the "destabilisation" of African states.The head of the African Union has expressed concern over the flow of weapons into Libya after France revealed it had dropped arms into rebel-held areas of the conflict-stricken country earlier this month. "What worries us is not who is giving what, but simply that weapons are being distributed by all parties and to all parties. We already have proof that these weapons are in the hands of al-Qaeda, of traffickers," said Ping. Earlier in the day, the Le Figaro newspaper and the AFP news agency reported that France had dropped several tonnes of arms, including Milan anti-tank rockets and light armoured vehicles. Colonel Thierry Burkhard, a spokesperson for the French general staff, told Al Jazeera on Wednesday that the military had dropped assault rifles, machine guns and rocket-propelled grenade launchers to groups of unarmed civilians in western Libya it deemed to be at risk. The airdrops arrived somewhere in rebel-held towns in the Nafusa mountains, which run east-west from the Tunisian border around 100km south of the capital Tripoli.
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France 'won't rule out' more Libyan weapon drops shabablibya.org/?p=3543 #Libya
A senior French diplomat tells Channel 4 News a weapon drop to rebel-held areas was a legally justified move to protect civilians, and that France won’t rule out deploying more arms in the future.
The French newspaper Le Figaro claims that several tonnes of arms – including assault rifles, anti-tank rockets and light armoured vehicles – were dropped around rebel-held towns in the Nafusa mountains, around 100 km south of the capital Tripoli.
France has denied sending several tonnes but has revealed that weapons were dropped in rebel-held areas.
It is the first time that a Nato member has openly admitted arming rebels, although Qatar has been accused of supplying arms to opposition fighters on a larger scale.
A senior French diplomatic source who wished to remain nameless told Channel 4 News that the weapon drop “was an operational decision taken at the time to help civilians who were in in imminent danger. A group of civilians were about to be massacred so we took the decision to provide self-defensive weapons to protect those civilian populations under threat.”
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