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4/14/11

Libya fires verbal abuse at Qatar as NATO mulls more air strikes - by Imed Lamloum

Libya accused Qatar of providing rebels seeking to oust Moamer Kadhafi with anti-tank missiles, as NATO on Thursday gathered to mull calls for intensified air strikes on the strongman's forces. "Qatar sent French Milan missiles to the rebels in Benghazi," the eastern city that serves as their base, Libyan Deputy Foreign Minister Khaled Kaim told a press conference in Tripoli.

He charged that 20 Qatari experts were also in the city to train some 700 rebels and that elements of the Lebanese group Hezbollah were fighting with the rebels in eastern Libya.

Both Qatar and France are part of the international coalition carrying out a military intervention in Libya against Moamer Kadhafi's regime. France and Britain agreed to step up military pressure on Kadhafi's forces after world powers meeting in Doha promised Libya's rebels cash and the means to defend themselves.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy and British Prime Minister David Cameron agreed on increased military pressure at a working dinner in Paris ahead of a meeting of NATO foreign ministers in Berlin beginning Thursday, a source in the French presidency said.

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