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France gives millions in Gaddafi funds to rebels
France announced Monday that it had transferred $259 million in frozen funds from the regime of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi to the rebels' National Transitional Council, earmarked for "humanitarian" purchases including food and medicine.
By News Wires (text)
AFP - France on Monday said it had given Libyan rebels 259 million dollars (181 million euros) in frozen funds that used to belong to the regime of strongman leader Moamer Kadhafi.
"The NTC (National Transitional Council) will now be able to use these funds for purchases of a humanitarian nature," the French foreign ministry said in a statement.
The NTC's new ambassador to Paris, Mansur Saif al-Nasr, said after meeting French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe that "these are funds that belong to the Libyan people" that will be used to buy "food and medicine."
The Libyan rebel movement installed ambassadors in Paris and London last Thursday, formalising ties with its main allies in the fight to topple Kadhafi from power in Tripoli.
France and Britain are taking part in NATO-coordinated strikes against Kadhafi's military assets. Paris was the first outside state to formally recognise the rebels as the country's legitimate rulers.
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Libya's money
The money belongs to Libyan people
Hurray to France!
if they spend it in French products ,even better!
helping each other is only normal!
the left does it all the time!
Stealing from the Libyans
Is there a difference between what France and her allies are doing with a military coup? How can people forcefully take power and are now been recognised as the leader of the Libyan people? Where is the democracy? Why did they refuse to conduct elections? How accountable are these rebels that Libyan funds should be handed over to them? How legal is it that funds were deposited by a government and are being handed to a party that cannot even account for howmuch funds they were? Is this really about the Libyan People or just a way to share the wealth between the rebels and the thieving French, British and US governments?
These are questions posterity will ask us? The Libyans had a welfare system, the had good education and healthcare systems but did not have freedom of expression. Has NATO bombings now created the framework for this freedom. If my reasoning is correct, people need to be educated, in good health and free from hunger to be able to express themselves. Gadaffi may have ruled with an iron fist but he laid the groundwork for a better Libya. These rebels are simply out to make their personal gains and before long they will be no more different from the corrupt leaders of Africa.
When the dust settles, the ordinary libyans will now truly revolt - this time not against a Gadaffi regime but against these rebels and of course France, UK and US. I hope we are prepared for the mayhem they will unleash? Iraq's lesson seems not to have been learned - but Libya's will be too outstanding not to be learned.
finally!
About time that money comes back to the Libyan people to pay for its freedom!
dammmm worthy!
USA, NATO, France loosing in Libya
How does Libya a geographically large country, with a relatively tiny population
of around 8 million people, frustrate the enormous military might of the United States,
Britain, France, NATO, and the coalition of the wicked,
whose nations total hundreds of millions of people?
Norway And The Coalition Of The Wicked July 2011
http://www.peterjamesx.com/Docs%202011/Norway%20And%20Coalition%20Of%20T...
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