Gadhafi Troops Issued Viagra to Help Them Rape: US

Moammar Gadhafi’s forces have been issued Viagra, to help them better rape the people of Libya, US ambassador Susan Rice told several other UN diplomats at a closed-door Security Council meeting yesterday. “She spoke of Gadhafi’s soldiers targeting children, and other atrocities,” one diplomat tells Reuters. Rice offered no evidence for her allegations, which diplomats said were designed to win over countries that have grown skeptical of the UN mission in Libya—namely China, India, and Russia.

“Rice raised that in the meeting, but no one responded,” another diplomat said. Earlier this month the UN’s envoy on sexual violence during armed conflicts said that reports of rape in Libya were unconfirmed, but that they were credible enough that the Security Council should have mentioned them in its two most recent resolutions on Libya. (More rape stories.)