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'Gaddafi evading capture in a Mercedes 4x4 bristling with anti-tracking systems... and it was given to him by Nicolas Sarkozy'
By NABILA RAMDANI
Last updated at 7:07 PM on 19th September 2011
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ ... icolas-Sarkozy.html
Muammar Gaddafi has escaped in a state-of-the-art armoured vehicle provided by Nicolas Sarkozy, it emerged today.
In the latest extraordinary twist to the Libyan rebellion, it emerged that the French President gave the ‘green light’ to the Arab dictator receiving the £3.5 million converted Mercedes 4x4 in 2008.
Not only is it filled with communications systems capable of keeping Gaddafi in touch with his forces, but it can foil the kind of tracking systems used by the military as they try to hunt him down.
Stealthy and bulletproof: A road-going Mercedes ML, the type which has been modified with armour plating and jamming technology, and allegedly given to Muammar Gaddafi by France
It was Mr Sarkozy who ordered French jets to start bombing Gaddafi’s forces back in March, and last week he and Prime Minister David Cameron enjoyed a triumphant trip to the newly liberated Tripoli.
But investigative news site Mediapart has found documents proving that French technology firm Amesys was allowed to provide Gaddafi with the command vehicle.
The revelation comes on the day that pro-Gaddafi fighters fired anti-aircraft guns at revolutionary forces holding the northern gate of Bani Walid for a second day, as frustration with weeks of halting advances grows among the former rebel ranks.
Forces - no longer rebels but the military of the National Transitional Council, Libya's interim government - have been massed outside Bani Walid since shortly after Libya's new rulers gained control of Tripoli and other parts of the country in August.
Block-by-block fighting continues in Gaddafi's home town of Sirte, with revolutionary forces claiming to have opened a second front in the east of the city.
Of Sarkozy's armoured 4x4, Mediapart says: ‘In 2007 the sale was approved by the then Interior Minister, Nicolas Sarkozy, and his chief of staff Claude Gueant.
‘The vehicle was eventually delivered in 2008 - this time with the green light from the President.’
The site goes on to give details of the armoured 4X4 Mercedes ML - equipped with a protection cage made by
Faraday, which prevents all electronic fields from affecting the vehicle.
It also comes with an electronic device capable of knocking out all radio frequencies within some 300ft of the vehicle. This would make the kind of targeted bombing, which has seen hundreds of Libyan Army vehicles destroyed over the past six months, almost impossible.
A military source in Paris said: ‘Gaddafi has almost certainly used the vehicle to get away. It is a product of superb French engineering, and an obvious means of escape.
‘Gaddafi would be able to stay out sight of military targeters, and be extremely well protected if he met enemy forces on the ground.’
In a further disastrous revelation for Mr Sarkozy, it emerged that the 4X4 was part of a £25million-plus deal that also saw the French provide Libya with the means to conduct email surveillance over their own people.
The deal was put together by the French-Lebanese arms dealer Ziad Takieddine, which is at the centre of a party-funding scandal involving Mr Sarkozy.
The scandal, known in France as ‘Karachigate’, is linked to the selling of submarines to Pakistan.
The unidentified military source added: ‘All of this is disastrous for Mr Sarkozy. On one hand he is presenting himself as the saviour of Libya, while in reality he did more to keep Gaddafi in arms than almost anybody else.’
PR disaster: Revelations that Nicolas Sarkozy essentially gave Muammar Gaddafi the means of his escape from capture will be a major embarrassment for the French President. Both men are seen here in a 2007 photo
Sherpa, a French Internet watchdog group, last week filed a complaint against Amesys for selling equipment to Gaddafi designed ‘to track rebel forces’.
An Elysee Palace spokesman said: ‘We have no comment to make on any of this.’
Today trained fighters pulled away from Bani Walid to regroup and reinforce for a new assault, after they were heavily beaten in the city Friday.
Gaddafi forces opened up on the bands of ragtag, undisciplined fighters left on on the front line.
These include fighters as young as 18 who spend hours smoking hash, shooting at plastic bottles, arguing with one another and sometimes just firing wildly into the streets out of apparent boredom.
Fighting is raging at Sirte, Gaddafi's hometown on the Mediterranean coast. The regime stronghold of Sabha lies hundreds of miles away in the southern deserts, and there are others deep in the central deserts like the cities of Houn and Zallah.
Revolutionaries involved in the battle at Sirte are more organised but have have made slow progress.
Today revolutionary forces shelled the city with Grad rockets and the sound of gunfights echoed through the streets.
White smoke wafted over the city, and civilians continued to flee. Gaddafi forces answered back with occasional Katyusha rockets.
Regular truckloads of fuel and food arrive from Misrata to keep the fighters supplied outside Sirte.
In the past three days, they have battled block-by-block into the western side of Sirte, along the beach and along a eucalyptus tree-lined main avenue parallel to the coast.
当利比亚执政当局武装人员与卡扎菲残余部队进行最后激战之时，9月19日来自法国的一则消息让人们备感震惊。消息称，利比亚逃亡领导人卡扎菲乘坐一辆拥有尖端配置的奔驰牌防弹车逃离追杀，而这辆价值350万英镑的豪华座驾恰恰是在此次利比亚行动中表现“最突出”的法国总统萨科齐提供的。
http://news.xinhuanet.com/world/2011-09/21/c_122065528.htm
法国调查新闻网站Mediapart找到的文件显示，汽车是由一辆奔驰牌轿车改装而成，不仅设有帮助卡扎菲与军队保持联络的通讯设备，还能够将敌方使用的跟踪系统完全屏蔽掉。此外，车内还有一个阻止附近任何电场干扰的特制防护笼，以及一个能够屏蔽300英尺(约合91米)以内所有无线电信号的电子装置。这意味着，那种百试不爽的定位轰炸将失去效力。
该网站还披露，这辆车出自法国Amesys技术公司。“2007年，时任内政部长的萨科齐批准了这桩交易。这辆车最终在2008年被送抵利比亚，当时萨科齐已经当上总统，并且持同意态度。”
另据来自巴黎的一个消息源说：“卡扎菲几乎肯定是乘坐这辆车出逃的。它是法国工程领域最尖端的产品，而且很明显是最好的逃离手段。坐上它，卡扎菲可以远离攻击者的视野，即便在地面上遭遇敌方部队，他也能够获得最大程度的保护。”
该消息源同时表示：“所有这些对于萨科齐而言都是毁灭性的。他一方面表现得像利比亚人民的救世主，而实际上在武装卡扎菲方面比任何人做得都到位。”
今年3月份，萨科齐率先下令法国战机对利比亚首都的黎波里发动空袭。就在上周，他又迫不及待地与英国首相卡梅伦访问了的黎波里，庆祝胜利。
连日来，英法两国与利比亚亲密关系的历史文件陆续被曝光，与现实情景形成了鲜明对比。 |
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