Ajde da malo i druge 'implikujemo': Francuski i Britanski placenici u Libiji...Oficijalni Pariz demantira...
France says it has no mercenaries in Libya
BANI WALID/SIRTE, Libya (Reuters) - France denied on Monday that it had mercenaries in Libya, after Muammar Gaddafi's loyalists said they had captured 17 foreigners -- some British and French -- in the fight for a town still held by the ousted leader's followers.
The claim by Gaddafi's spokesman Moussa Ibrahim that foreign security personnel had been captured in the battle for the pro-Gaddafi bastion Bani Walid could not be verified and no immediate proof was presented.
It comes as the new authorities are facing stark reversals on the battlefield and in the political arena.
Nearly a month after Gaddafi was driven from power, his loyalist holdouts have beaten back repeated assaults by National Transitional Council forces at Bani Walid and Gaddafi's home city of Sirte. NTC fighters have been sent fleeing in disarray after failing to storm Gaddafi bastions.
The NTC, still based in the eastern city of Benghazi, has faced questions about whether it can unify a country divided on tribal and local lines. A long-promised attempt to set up a more inclusive interim government fell apart overnight.
"A group was captured in Bani Walid consisting of 17 mercenaries. They are technical experts and they include consultative officers," Gaddafi spokesman Ibrahim said on Syria-based Arrai television, which has backed Gaddafi.
"Most of them are French, one of them is from an Asian country that has not been identified, two English people and one Qatari."
French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe, in New York to attend a U.N. meeting, told journalists: "We have no French mercenaries in Libya."
The British foreign office said it had no information about whether the report was true and Qatar's foreign ministry was not available for comment. NATO, which is staging air strikes on Gaddafi loyalist positions, says it has no troops on the ground in Libya.
Western nations have sent special forces in the past, and media have reported that private security firms have aided anti-Gaddafi forces in training, target ting and with leadership. Gulf Arab states have also sent trainers and arms.
Among the confirmed sightings of foreign security personnel in Libya during the conflict, the head of a French security firm was shot dead at a checkpoint in Benghazi in May, and British special forces troops were held for three days by rebels in March while escorting a spy trying to make contacts.
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http://af.reuters.com/article/topNews/idAFJOE78I00320110919 
