Newly recovered documents reveal a Western military contractor tried to help arm Col. Muammar Gaddafi’s elite military units just before the Libyan popular uprising broke out. According to Reuters, documents found in an abandoned Libyan base show the British arm of the U.S.-based General Dynamics was brokering deals to improve communications systems for tanks, artillery and armored troop carriers for Gaddafi’s Khamis Brigade just one month before the unrest began. A letter from a General Dynamics project manager to Libya’s defense ministry dated January 25 disclosed plans for a major upgrade of Libyan military equipment, including weapons and vehicles. General Dynamics claims the upgrade was never completed.