UK has weapons deals going back to at least 2004 --
Britain sold Libya about $55 million worth of military and paramilitary equipment in the year ending Sept. 30, 2010, according to Foreign Office statistics. Among the items: sniper rifles, bulletproof vehicles, crowd-control ammunition and tear gas.
"What did the Foreign Office think Colonel Gadhafi meant to do with sniper rifles and tear-gas grenades - go mole hunting?" asked Britain's Guardian newspaper.
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The U.S. also approved the sale of military items to Libya in recent years, giving private arms firms licenses to sell everything from explosives and incendiary agents to aircraft parts and targeting equipment.
The Bush administration approved the sale of $3 million of materials to Libya in 2006 and $5.3 million in 2007. In 2008, Libya was allowed to import $46 million in armaments from the U.S. The approved goods included nearly 400 shipments of explosive and incendiary materials, 25,000 aircraft parts, 56,000 military electronics components and nearly 1,000 items of optical targeting and other guidance equipment.
The U.S. State Department has not yet provided figures for materiel licensed to Libya during the Obama administration. But according to one U.S. government official, Congress spurned a 2009 Obama administration request for approval of a license to allow the private shipment of M113 armored personnel carriers.
The official, who insisted on anonymity because the licensing process is classified, would not detail the number of armored cars sought by Libya. Libyan military officials had pressed U.S. officials as far back as 2007 for the cars and troop-carrying Chinook helicopters, but the Bush administration balked at the requests, the official said.
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Britain's elite Special Air Service, or SAS, also participated in recent training for Libyan soldiers in counterterrorism and surveillance. Robin Horsfall, a former SAS soldier, said at the time that the training was a mistake: "People will die as a result of this decision," he warned.
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France to Supply Libya with European Weapons | Europe ...
France has agreed to sell Libya anti-tank missiles as part of ... type worth around 100 million euros in France," Gadhafi ... What do you think of the decision to sell weapons ...
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France has agreed to sell Libya anti-tank missiles as part of the military agreement reached last week by French President Nicolas Sarkozy and Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi.
"We are going to buy rocket-propelled grenades of the Milan type worth around 100 million euros in France," Gadhafi's son Saif al-Islam Gaddafi was quoted as saying in an interview published in Thursday's French daily Le Monde. "There's also a project for a weapons factory."
A shoulder-mounted anti-tank weapon, the Milan is built by a subsidiary of Europe's joint EADS defense and aerospace company.
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Bush, of course, 'NORMALIZED' relations with Gaddafi --
Arms embargo ended in 2004 --