France Provides Terrorists in Syria with Russian Igla Anti-Aircraft Missiles

TEHRAN (FNA)- A Libyan member of the al-Qaeda terrorist group disclosed that France has supplied armed rebel and terrorist groups in Syria with Russian Igla anti-air missiles and even trained them how to use these systems.

“Qaddafi’s regime had good relations with the Russians and purchased various weapons from them, including Igla anti-air missiles, which are similar to the US Stinger anti-air shoulder-launched missiles,” Othman Trablosi said on Wednesday.

He said that after Qaddafi’s regime collapsed and rebels came to conquer its army’s weapons and ammo caches, the French army which supported the Libyan rebels with logistical and intelligence backups, collected 232 Igla missiles which were in the hands of the Libyan fighters who were busy with fighting Qaddafi’s supporters.

“After that the French found some of the Libyan army officers who had been trained to use Igla missiles and in September 2012 they used these offers for training a number of al-Qaeda terrorists who ran operations in Syria,” Trablosi explained.

“Then” he said “the French transited these al-Qaeda members and the Igla anti-air systems from Benghazi to the Southern provinces of Turkey on a Bulgarian cargo plane and then ferried them across the border into Syria.”

He underlined that the French army exercises tight control and inspection over each and every step of the program.

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