France admits to arming Libyan revolutionaries


on Jul 1, 2011

France has led the more than three-month-old NATO campaign against Libya, but they may have gone a step too far by announcing that they have been secretly supplying anti-Ghadaffi forces with arms. Some 40 tons of guns, rocket-propelled grenades and anti-tank missiles have been airlifted into the Berber regions west of Tripoli, in apparent defiance of the UN arms embargo.

Press TV's Ramin Mazaheri reports from Paris.




Jul 1, 2011 by

Russia has accused France of a "crude violation" of a UN arms embargo imposed on Libya after it emerged that the French military air-dropped weapons to Libyan rebels in the Western Mountains.

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