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Russia accuses Libya of help Syrian rebels

Russia\'s accusing Libya of running a training center for Syrian rebels and arming the fighters in their battle to overthrow the country\'s President Bashar al-...

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March 8, 2012 11:08 am

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Russia’s accusing Libya of running a training center for Syrian rebels and arming the fighters in their battle to overthrow the country’s President Bashar al-Assad. Russia’s ambassador to the United Nations, Vitaly Churkin, told the U.N. Security Council, “We have received information that in Libya, with the support of the authorities, there is a special training center for the Syrian revolutionaries and people are sent to Syria to attack the legal government.”