Wednesday, May 10, 2017

UAE Sends 'US-Made Aircraft to Libya despite Arms Embargo

The United Arab Emirates deployed US-made warplanes in support of general Khalifa Haftar, who heads the self-styled Libyan National Army in Eastern Libya, reports said.

At least six turboprop planes appear in satellite images of an airbase in Eastern Libya. Haftar's army is fighting against the US and UN-backed government located in Tripoli, Middle East Eye reported.

The move directly violates American policy on Libya and a UN arms embargo aimed at stopping the flow of weapons which have sustained the civil war.  

An anonymous official from an international organisation working closely on Libya, told Time Magazine, the planes at the base appear to be Archangels, a specialised turboprop plane made by Iomax USA, a North Carolina-based company.

Iomax CEO Ron Howard confirmed to Time that his company's aeroplanes had been deployed in Libya.

"The aeroplanes have been there, but it wasn't aeroplanes we sold Libya," he said during a telephone interview with Time.

Asked if the aircraft had been sent there by the UAE, he said: "I would suspect that's probably who it is, yeah."

But Colonel Ahmed al-Mismari, a spokesman for Haftar's Libyan National Army, denied the existence of any UAE military presence in an interview with Time Magazine.
 [farsnews.com]
10/5/17
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