[Peace-discuss] Israeli firms sends mercenaries to Libya?

[C. G. Estabrook]

ISRAEL: PRESS, ISRAEL BEHIND AFRICAN MERCENARIES IN LIBYA

(ANSAmed) - ROME, MARCH 1 - With approval from the government in Tel Aviv, an 
Israeli security firm is responsible for sending groups of African mercenaries 
to Libya to fight the protestors who have been calling for the fall of the 
Gaddafi regime for the last two weeks, reports Al Jazeera's website, citing a 
source in the Israeli press. The journalist from Israeli daily Yediot Ahronot, 
who prefers to remain anonymous, said that according to speculation in the 
security sector, Israel looks at Libya from a strategic perspective and in terms 
of security. The fall of Gaddafi would open the door for an Islamic regime in 
Libya, according to speculation. In a meeting on February 18, Prime Minister 
Netanyahu, Defence Minister Barak and Foreign Minister Lieberman decided to 
recruit African mercenaries to fight alongside Gaddafi, according to the 
journalist. During the meeting, they decided to let General Isarel Zef, the 
director of security firm Global CST, which is active in many African countries, 
to make a group of paramilitary mercenaries from Guinea, Nigeria, Central 
Africa, Mali, Senegal, Darfur and Southern Sudan available to Abdullah 
Assinousi, one of the heads of Libya's intelligence agency.

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