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Operation Dignity fighter says ammo is sum total of Egyptian military support |
2014-10-28 |
[Libya Herald] The only international military help that Operation Dignity has been receiving is ammunition from Egypt, a fighter from Khalifa Hafter's forces has claimed. "No foreign country really supports us," the Operation Dignity fighter told the Libya Herald. "But we have been getting a lot of ammunition from Egypt." He said he knew the ammunition, including grad rockets, and a range of bullets, from 14.5 to 12.5 mm, was being supplied by Egypt because the country's name was written on the boxes. Several times he had been to the border crossing with Egypt, as well as to Operation Dignity bases to collect large shipments of ammunition to take back to the front lines, he said. The soldier added that rumours that foreign powers have been behind some of the The soldier said that in the five months he had been fighting in the front lines with Operation Dignity in Benghazi, he had seen nothing to suggest the involvement of other countries beyond the ammunition. Months of sporadic |
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