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Countries Agree to Try to Transfer Some of Qaddafi’s Assets to Libyan Rebels
• nytimes.comBut those divisions were set aside — for the moment, at least.
“This is the money of the Libyans, not of Colonel Qaddafi,” said Italy’s foreign minister, Franco Frattini, who added that the assistance would be aimed “at humanitarian and daily needs.”
He said, “People need food, or they need to pay salaries to workers.”
Rebel leaders in Benghazi received the news as a sign that the international community was prepared to sell them weapons.