Large Libyan convoy arrives in Niger

[Bosonic]

Source: Reuters

AGADEZ, Sept 6 (Reuters) - A large convoy of Libyan armored vehicles escorted by the Nigerien military arrived in the northern Niger desert town of Agadez late on Monday, a French military source and a Niger military source told Reuters.

The convoy contained between 200 and 250 Libyan military vehicles and included officers from Libya's southern army battalions, and likely crossed from Libya into Algeria before entering Niger, the sources said.

The French military source said he had been told Muammar Gaddafi and his son Saif al-Islam might be considering joining the convoy en route to Burkina Faso, a landlocked West African state which has offered Gaddafi and his family asylum and has a border with Niger.

Read more: http://af.reuters.com/article/commoditiesNews/idAFL5E7K600220110906

[Mr Deltoid]

1. About time

Libyans have suffered enough for this guys ego.

[joshcryer]

2. I hope Gaddafi wasn't with them.

Otherwise he could hire an army to attack Free Libya.

[Turborama]

3. Libyan army convoy in Niger may be Gaddafi deal

By Christian Lowe and Abdoulaye Massalatchi

TRIPOLI/AGADEZ, Niger | Tue Sep 6, 2011 12:19pm BST

(Reuters) - Scores of Libyan army vehicles have crossed the desert frontier into Niger in what may be a dramatic, secretly negotiated bid by Muammar Gaddafi to seek refuge in a friendly African state, military sources from France and Niger told Reuters on Tuesday.

A convoy of between 200 and 250 vehicles was given an escort by the army of Niger, a poor and landlocked former French colony to the south of Libya. It might, according to a French military source, be joined by Gaddafi en route for neighbouring Burkina Faso, which has offered him asylum.

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His son Saif al-Islam, heir apparent before the uprising which ended his father's 42 years of personal rule, also was considering joining the convoy, the French source added. France played a leading role in the war against Gaddafi and such a large Libyan military convoy could hardly have moved safely without the knowledge and agreement of NATO air forces.

Sources told Reuters that France may have brokered an arrangement between the new Libyan government and Gaddafi.

Full article: http://uk.reuters.com/article/2011/09/06/uk-libya-idUKTRE76Q30I20110906?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews