Posted on 04/10/2013 5:01:02 AM PDT by Pan_Yan
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Weapons are spreading from Libya at an "alarming rate," fueling conflicts in Mali, Syria and elsewhere and boosting the arsenals of extremists and criminals in the region, according to a U.N. report published on Tuesday.
The report by the U.N. Security Council's Group of Experts - who monitor an arms embargo imposed on Libya at the start of an uprising in 2011 which ousted leader Muammar Gaddafi - said the North African state had become a key source of weapons in the region as its nascent government struggles to exert authority.
Libyan government security forces remain weak and militias, made up of former rebel fighters, hold power on the ground.
"Cases, both proven and under investigation, of illicit transfers from Libya in violation of the embargo cover more than 12 countries and include heavy and light weapons, including man-portable air defense systems, small arms and related ammunition and explosives and mines," the experts wrote in the report.
"Illicit flows from the country are fuelling existing conflicts in Africa and the Levant and enriching the arsenals of a range of non-State actors, including terrorist groups," according to the 94-page report, which was dated February 15 but published on Tuesday.
"The proliferation of weapons from Libya continues at an alarming rate," the report said.
The experts said transfers of arms to Syria - where a two-year-old civil war has killed more than 70,000 people - had been organized from various locations in Libya, including Misrata and Benghazi, via Turkey or northern Lebanon.
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The Middle East has become a money maker for the Democrats. Who will notice a few million skimmed off here and there from the billions sent to rebuild these nations? And it’s much easier to make favorable deals for oil with the people overthrowing governments. They are desperate. Foreign policy for Democrats is easy. It’s all about who can put the most money in Democrat pockets.
Another purposeful “cluster”, initated by Sparky the Wunder Prez...
How many of these weapons were supplied by Stevens and how does Benghazi fit into this?
Impeachment File on Benghazi Coward B. Hussein Obama, aka Barry Soetoro.
So Ben Ghazi isn’t the towel boy at Chicago’s Man Country bathhouse?
R.I.P. Doherty, Smith, Stevens, Wood. “Bumps in the road” for Barack’s internationalist agenda.
Congress and the MSM would not care if the
undocumented pRes_ _ent were arming, funding,
assisting, and expanding the terror and power
of al Qaeda (which attacked the US and apparently won
the second the US Congress made Islam exempt from
ObamaCARE and death panels).
have you read this:
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