EU traded weapons to Libya until the arms embargo.
http://www.spiegel.de/international/...747440,00.html
A certain hypocrisy also is possible:
http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,15014836,00.html
More worrysome are the lacking 10-20 thousand shoulderpads NATO has lost track of in Libya. Even if most are not working anymore due to their age (wanna bet you life on it, though?), they are a very major concern with regard to Islamic terrorism, and the conflicts in Afghanistan and Israel.