(Telegraph-UK) Con Coughlin - Iran is trying to prevent Libya from disclosing incriminating details of Teheran's top-secret nuclear weapons program, by threatening to unleash Islamic fundamentalist groups opposed to Colonel Muammar Gaddafi. Western intelligence has learned that a militant group of Libyan extremists is being protected and trained in Iran by terrorism experts from Iran's Revolutionary Guards. The Libyan Combat Islamic Group (GICL), expelled from Libya by Gaddafi in 1997, is closely involved with al-Qaeda.
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