Libye: l'acquisition de missiles sol-air par AQMI inquiète les services de renseignement français. Questions Remain on Libyan Mustard Agent Stockpile. PrintShareEmailTwitterFacebookLinkedIn The U.S. intelligence community is uncertain of the exact location of Libya's remaining chemical warfare materials, though officials say besieged dictator Muammar Qadhafi has moved to bolster the security surrounding the primary cache of mustard blister agent, Reuters reported yesterday (see GSN, March 2).
Before fighting began last month, Libya had been making significant headway toward elimination of its chemical arsenal as required by the Chemical Weapons Convention. The North African nation is said to have destroyed more than half of its roughly 25-metric-ton cache of mustard agent as well as thousands of empty aerial munitions that could have been used to disperse the substance. Libya also possesses chemical agent precursor materials. An informed official yesterday said the United States had recently received information that defenses around the chief chemical agent stockpile had been "upgraded.
" Libyan Fighters Secure Chemical Warfare Materials, Official Says. PrintShareEmailTwitterFacebookLinkedIn An official with Libya's transitional government said on Wednesday that fighters have located and moved to protect chemical warfare materials left behind by the former Qadhafi regime, Reuters reported (see GSN, Oct. 21). "They are from the Qadhafi era and are under guard, until they can be handed over," the Transitional National Coalition delegate said during talks with NATO officials in Qatar. Prior to the outbreak of the popular uprising in February, Libya was understood to possess approximately 9 metric tons of mustard blister agent, a larger amount of chemical weapon precursor material and a substantial cache of raw "yellowcake" uranium.
The North African state had destroyed more than half of its declared mustard stockpile under the watch of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, along with thousands of aerial munitions that could have been used to disperse toxic materials. Livraison d’armes à la Libye : Qui a livré quoi ? Nicolas Gros-Verheyde / Libye / Le ministre de la Défense italien au salon des armements Idex 2011 à Abu Dhabi (Crédit : ministère IT de la Défense) Qui a livré quoi ? La réponse est : 14 des 27 Etats membres de l’Union européenne ont exporté des armes vers la Libye en 2009, selon les chiffres du dernier rapport publié par l’Union européenne. Au total, 283 licences ont ainsi été délivrées aux exportateurs européens pour un montant estimé de 343,7 millions d’euros (si on prend la valeur des licences) ou de 173,9 millions d’euros (si on prend la valeur des armes).
Le champion toutes catégories est… Malte avec près de 80 millions d’euros en armes de petits calibres, suivi de l’Allemagne (53 millions), l’Italie et la France (44 millions chacun, le Royaume-Uni (25 millions). Nb : on prend ici en compte les exportations « légales ». Détails Autriche (1 licence) : 0,002 millions d’euros (2.476 euros) (armes de petit calibre inférieur à 20mm inShare0 armes, Libye, UE / 1 Comment. Updated: Libyan fighter jets arrive in Malta - pilots request asylum. You need Javascript and either Adobe Flash 9 or Html5 to view this video. Two Libyan Air Force Mirage jet fighters unexpectedly flew to Malta this afternoon with their pilots claiming they escaped to Malta after having been ordered to bomb protesters who have taken control of the second city of Benghazi.
The pilots told the Maltese authorities that they left from a base near Tripoli. Their aircraft were armed with air to ground rockets. The pilots initially asked for emergency clearance to land and for refuelling. Upon landing they were questioned by the police and sought political asylum. Their arrival followed shortly after the arrival of two civilian helicopters which flew in and landed at Malta International Airport this afternoon carrying seven people. Informed sources said the helicopters 'escaped from Libya with no official clearance' but arrived in Malta regularly. Such was the haste of their departure from Libya, that only one of the passengers was carrying a passport.
La Libye n'a plus que deux Mirage F1 en état de vol.