PARIS: Al Qaeda’s offshoot in North Africa has snatched surface-to-air missiles from an arsenal in Libya during the civil strife there, Chad’s president said in an interview to be published Monday.
Le Tchadien Deby affirme qu'Aqmi s'est emparé de missiles en Libye
[From the French] PARIS - Chadian President Idriss Deby said in an interview with the weekly Jeune Afrique, to be published Monday, that Al-Qaeda in Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) took advantage of the uprising in Libya to take ground-air missiles (MANPADS).
"What is my worry? Concerned, is it? Is what is happening TODAY? Now in Libya and the risk? Implosion of that country," said Deby. "The Islamists? Al-Qaeda took advantage of looting arsenals in the rebel zone for its own purposes? Supplies of arms seized, including surface to air missiles, which are subsequently leaking into their sanctuaries in the Ténéré (central Sahara, etc.), "he added.
"What? It is very serious. AQIM is becoming a real army, the best equipped in the region," he said, asserting that he was sure "of 100%" of his claims.
The Chadian President believes that there is "some truth" in the statements of what Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi has said repeatedly. [that the uprising is] manipulated [by the?] qu'Aqmi insurgents.
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