[Cardhu]

"Secopex said it had been prospecting for security work in Benghazi."

What were they prospect for in Tripoli to turn down a job offer there. Yeah riiight.

[ScaniaBoy]

Interesting. The press release from the rebels was published after two diplomatic sources from Europe (see Le Figaro) had suggested the French could be spies for Quaddhafi. The boss of the company, Secopex, had only just arrived from Cairo, and was suppoesed to meet (according to one executive at the firm) with the leaders in Benghazi.

Did the French end up the victims of a power struggle among the rebels?
or victims of a power struggle among oil hungry EU nations?
or just a trigger happy Benghazi "police"?

The French have been very quiet...

[org.whodat]

Oh yes, those wonderful Egyptian and us rebels, the whole country is behind them, daffy and his two dozen supports are dead meat. Problem is that is backward. Killing people that just arrived and calling them spies, just sounds so ragtag, sort of like shooting your own lookouts.