The British government, now vigorously hunting for Libya's Muammar Gaddafi, had increased the sale of sniper rifles to the fugitive dictator weeks before uprising began in the country, a report says.
The documents found by the Sunday Telegraph reveals that last December, the British ambassador to Libya, openly persuaded the Libyan officials at the army to visit Britain to see the military equipments, such as rifles and machine guns.
The Libyan envoy responsible for buying weapons for Gaddafi regime, was then hosted in Britain by Major General Jonathan Shaw, the Assistant Chief of the Defence Staff at the Ministry of Defence and Richard Northern, UK top diplomat in Tripoli.
The British guns were to be used only weeks later by pro-Gaddafi forces to kill anti-regime protesters and inhabitants in towns that joined the revolution. Full story...
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The documents found by the Sunday Telegraph reveals that last December, the British ambassador to Libya, openly persuaded the Libyan officials at the army to visit Britain to see the military equipments, such as rifles and machine guns.
The Libyan envoy responsible for buying weapons for Gaddafi regime, was then hosted in Britain by Major General Jonathan Shaw, the Assistant Chief of the Defence Staff at the Ministry of Defence and Richard Northern, UK top diplomat in Tripoli.
The British guns were to be used only weeks later by pro-Gaddafi forces to kill anti-regime protesters and inhabitants in towns that joined the revolution. Full story...
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