February 2012
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“The 32nd Brigade was not protecting humanitarian convoys. That’s bullshit....”
– Ali, who showed me a “less lethal” launcher FN303 in Tripoli.
The weapon was sold to the 32nd Khamis Brigade by FN Herstal (Walloon Region, Belgium) in 2008-2009 for “humanitarian purpose” according to legal documents.
The whole article (behind paywall) is on Apache.be....
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“Il n’est pas dans l’intention de la Belgique de contribuer à un...”
– Michel Malherbe, porte-parole du Ministère des Affaires Etrangères Belges. Le Ministère a proposé de s’investir dans un programme de sécurisation des lance-missiles sol-air libyens à hauteur de 300.000 euros pour ce qui concerne les MANPADS. Cette somme serait prélevée sur le budget diplomatie...
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“Ici, on l’appelle “Le Belge”. A Tripoli, il est très demandé, et il...”
– En Libye, demandez “le Belge”. Mon article dans La Libre Belgique du 13 février 2012.
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How much do you think these Belgian weapons cost...
UPDATE March 24: sorry folks, I totally forgot to update this post. My bad. But you can find some answers here.
The two weapons here under are Belgian. They were not part of the 2009 shippement to Libya. They are here for several decades, probably. But weapons hardly die, don’t they?
I took those pictures on the 7th of February in Ayn Zarah, South-East of Tripoli, at the compound of the...
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