Seven years have passed since his coup and plunging the country into a tunnel from which it has not yet emerged.. A secret memorandum issued by the Airforce Intelligence Center of the French Army on the 23rd of November 2017, showing the extent of support received by Khalifa Haftar from the UAE, which is still standing behind him until now, which has been covered up by the state of France.
The secret memorandum that has not been published so far stated that the Emirati support for Haftar began in late 2015 and in conjunction with the signing of the Skhirat agreement reached by the United Nations with the Libyan parties, where the memorandum detailed that Abu Dhabi began to support the old man of Rajma with a first batch of equipment, represented in more than 500 vehicles. “Pickups” for military use, in addition to the Spartan armored vehicles, which the site suggested that Haftar used in his war in Benghazi, as well as 1000 other vehicles to be supplied later, in addition to 1000 vehicles that include American Cougar military armored vehicles.
The French investigative website, “Disclose”, published a detailed report on the smuggling and fraud practiced by the UAE in Libya, to support Haftar, with the help of Egypt, adding that the Gulf state took a military base south of Al-Marj, which is named, the Emirati Al-Khadim base, and this Emirati base in the eastern Libyan included members of the Special Forces, Wing Loong drones, and Black Hawk helicopters, supplied by Abu Dhabi to Haftar.
The secret newspaper, its details of which were disclosed by “Disclose”, also reported that the UAE is circumventing the arms embargo with Egypt and France by using military boats and planes, in addition to “private airlines.”
The support for Haftar, with which he launched his wars and carried out his military coups, did not stop there. in addition to all the equipment that Abu Dhabi gave him, Egypt provided him with four MiG-21 combat aircraft and dozens of MI-8 helicopters during that period, as well as ammunition shipments.
