The English “Middle East Eye” website said that Muammar Gaddafi gave the Irish Republican Army 45 million dollars in cash, according to documents issued by the Irish National Archives, which were declassified a few days ago.
The website added that Gaddafi, after suffering extensive sanctions in the wake of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing, decided in the summer of 1992 to reveal the details of his support for the Irish Republican Army in an attempt to repair relations with Britain.
Middle East Eye confirmed that the Irish government knows that Gaddafi provides support to the Irish Republican Army, but British intelligence was shocked by the amount of financial aid provided, noting that British officials said that the Gaddafi regime gave the Irish Republican Army much more money than they thought.
The documents indicated that the weapons were supplied from Libya in 5 shipments: one in 1973 and two in 1985 and 1986, which are 1450 Kalashnikov automatic rifles, 180 pistols, 66 machine guns, 36 RPG launchers, 10 surface-to-air missiles, 765 grenades, 5800 kg of Semtex explosives, 1080 detonators, etc. Approximately 1.5 million rounds of various types.
It is worth noting that Gaddafi made Libya pay huge compensations to the American, German and French victims of numerous attacks, the most important of which was the bombing of the Lockerbie plane over Scotland in 1988, which Libya was accused of committing.
