Som det føste NATO land har Frankrig sendt våben til de libyske oprørere, oplyser den arabiske nyhedstjeneste Al Jazeera torsdag. Oplysningen er bekræftet af en talsperson fra det franske militær.
The French military has confirmed that it airdropped weapons early this month to civilians fighting in rebel-held areas in the western part of Libya.
Colonel Thierry Burkhard, a spokesperson for the French general staff, told Al Jazeera on Wednesday that the military had dropped assault rifles, machine guns and rocket-propelled grenade launchers to groups of unarmed civilians it deemed to be at risk.
Earlier in the day, the Le Figaro newspaper and the AFP news agency reported that France had dropped several tonnes of arms, including Milan anti-tank rockets and light armoured vehicles.
The airdrops arrived somewhere in rebel-held towns in the Nafusa mountains, which run east-west from the Tunisian border around 100km south of the capital Tripoli.
