Intel: White House sympathizes with France in Libya row with Turkey - Al-Monitor: The Middle Eastʼs leading independent news source since 2012

Bryant Harris

Jul 16, 2020

The French frigate Courbet crosses the Suez Canal waterway near the port city of Ismailia, east of Cairo, on April 19, 2013. The Courbet was involved in a standoff with three Turkish warships off Libya last month. — AFP via Getty Images

White House National Security adviser Robert O’Brien on Wednesday expressed sympathy for France’s account of events in a Mediterranean naval standoff with Turkey last month over a Libyan arm smuggling allegation.

“NATO allies shouldn’t be turning fire control radars on each other. That’s not good,” O’Brien told reporters in France. “We are very sympathetic to French concerns.”

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