Loading Libya: UK Red-Faced Over Arming Gaddafi

(Russia Today: 0753 PST, April 6, 2011) Britain may now be considering arming Libya's rebels, but lawmakers in London are furious that their colleagues allowed weapons to be sold to the Gaddafi regime as recently as last year. Libya is among several Arab nations who bought firepower from the UK, and which later saw uprisings. The ministers accuse them of misjudging whether those guns would be turned on civilians, as Laura Emmett explains.

 

 

 
 

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