[An Nahar] La Belle France on Monday said it had given Libyan rebels 259 million dollars (181 million euros) in frozen funds that used to belong to the regime of strongman leader Moammar Qadaffy
...whose instability has been an inspiration to dictators everywhere...
."The NTC (National Transitional Council) will now be able to use these funds for purchases of a humanitarian nature," the French foreign ministry said in a statement.
The NTC's new ambassador to Gay Paree, Mansour Saif al-Nasr, said after meeting French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe that "these are funds that belong to the Libyan people" that will be used to buy "food and medicine."
The Libyan rebel movement installed ambassadors in Gay Paree and London last Thursday, formalizing ties with its main allies in the fight to topple Qadaffy from power in Tripoli.
La Belle France and Britannia are taking part in NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all....
-coordinated strikes against Qadaffy's military assets. Gay Paree was the first outside state to formally recognize the rebels as the country's legitimate rulers.
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