The Libyan regime saw an opportunity to upgrade its surveillance capability with French technology, according to people familiar with the matter.

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We are very heartened in general by the international consensus that has been created here very rapidly in condemning the actions of the Libyan regime and the brutalization of the Libyan people by the Libyan government, and that includes obviously AFRICOM.

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Letters from MI6 officials to members of the former Libyan regime, which were discovered in a Tripoli building in the aftermath of last month's rebel takeover of the city, are said to lend credence to Mr Belhadj's allegations.

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