Libya‘s Prime Minister, and British Petroleum, Total, and Shell-funded Petroleum Institute chairman Abdurrahim el-Keib, flatly denied allegations by Russian UN Ambassador Vitaly Churkin that Libya was directly funding, training, and arming militants in Syria. El-Keib‘s denial stands in direct contradiction of reports like the London Telegraph‘s „Leading Libyan Islamist met Syrian Army Opposition Group,“ where it was revealed that „the new Libyan authorities had offered money and weapons to the growing insurgency against Bashar al-Assad.“