PARIS (Reuters) - Islamist rebels based in southern Libya were most likely to have been behind an attack on France's embassy in Tripoli last month, but there were no plans to intervene in the lawless desert region, President Francois Hollande said on Friday.
France, which led international efforts to oust Muammar Gaddafi in 2011, is concerned that foreign Islamist fighters who escaped after Paris' intervention in Mali in January are now regrouping in southern Libya.
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