Libyan opposition: Israel supplying weapons to Gadhafi regime via Fatah strongman Mohamed Dahlan
April 7, 2011 posted by Adam Morrow · 9 Comments

Fatah strongman Mohamed Dahlan
World Tribune; April 6, 2011
CAIRO — The Libyan opposition, amid its failure to topple Col. Moammar Gadhafi, has accused Israel of supplying weapons to the Tripoli regime.
The opposition has charged that Israeli weapons were being supplied to the Gadhafi regime through a senior Palestinian official. Libyan opposition member Omar Khadraoui identified the official as Mohammed Dahlan, former Palestinian Authority security chief and now a member of the Fatah Central Committee. The Libyan rebel said Dahlan was working with an unidentified Iraqi Kurd.
“Dahlan is behind a deal to supply internationally-forbidden weapons to Col. Gadhafi,” Khadraoui said.
In an interview with the Algerian daily Echorouk, Khadraoui did not identify the weapons purportedly ordered by Gadhafi. Khadraoui said Dahlan brought a ship loaded with Israeli weapons from Greece to Tripoli. The weapons were said to have been acquired from an unidentified Israeli supplier.
“Revolutionaries in Misrata seized a portion of those weapons,” Khadraoui said on April 2.
This marked the first time that Israel was linked to the Libyan rebellion, which began in February.
[Not the first time, actually. In late February, reports emerged that an Israeli security company, Global CST, was recruiting mercenaries to support Gadhafi's counterrevolution.]