A Look Into Gaddafi's Mercenary Army

Col Gaddafi with Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko on a visit to Minsk in 2008. Belarus has long enjoyed close ties with Col Gaddafi's regime Photo: AFP/GETTY

Libya: Belarus Mercenary 'Paid £1,900 A Month To Help Gaddafi Forces' -- The Telegraph

A mercenary from Belarus has spoken of getting paid £1,900 a month to help Col Muammar Gaddafi's forces fight against the rebels and said there were "several hundred" of his compatriots doing the same thing.

The mercenary, who only gave his name as Mikhail, said he and his colleagues did not take part in the actual fighting but acted as advisers and were always present on the frontline. He told Russian newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda that many of his fellow Belarusians were veterans of the Soviet Union's 1979-89 war in Afghanistan and often had Special Forces backgrounds.

The paper, which reported that Nato's tactics were being frustrated by Col Gaddafi's forces, claimed that the mercenaries from Belarus were responsible for the Libyan army's unexpected resilience.

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My Comment: £1,900 a month .... call me skeptical. Then again .... those eastern Europeans do work cheap.