A ”well-informed French source” has said that the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle will carry out ”over the next two days” ”maneuvers with the Egyptian Navy”, the Arab website Al-Wasat first reported on Monday.
The site added that, according to a ”French military source”, the carrier left the Persian Gulf last Monday and is ”steaming through the Mediterranean and should arrive at the end of this week (Friday in Islamic countries) off the Libyan coast”. The De Gaulle, in the Gulf since December 19, boards ”groups of fighters at the disposal of the French army to gather information on Libya by air and sea”.
Citing the ”French source”, Al-Wasat also reported that there are no plans at the moment to strike Libya militarily in the near future, although such a ”possibility should be taken seriously”.
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