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Gaddafi's mercenaries… recruited from all directions?

Colonel Gaddafi did use mercenaries if we are to believe the photos circulating on the internet. Below. we notice men armed with RPGs, like the Chadian rezzous, which include a mixture of very white or Asian men and blacks. This would seem to accredit an all-out recruitment, on the European side as well as on the African side. On board, there are rifles equipped with bayonets. And in the second vehicle, which seems to be more than a machine gun, an automatic grenade launcher (450 rounds / minute, 30 mm, Russian-made type AGS 17 or AGS 30, an Internet user explained to me - see here).

Nicolas Gros Verheyde

Chief editor of the B2 site. Graduated in European law from the University of Paris I Pantheon Sorbonne and listener to the 65th session of the IHEDN (Institut des Hautes Etudes de la Défense Nationale. Journalist since 1989, founded B2 - Bruxelles2 in 2008. EU/NATO correspondent in Brussels for Sud-Ouest (previously West-France and France-Soir).

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