BELGIAN military intelligence has uncovered an illegal diamond trafficking network between Antwerp’s huge diamond market and Angolan guerrillas using the gems to buy arms, the Belgian daily Le Soir said on Monday. Le Soir said a secret military report entitled “Diamond trafficking from Angola, Belgium’s role,” contends that certain Belgian diamond merchants are dealing directly with rebels of Jonas Savimbi’s National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA). UN sanctions have driven diamond and arms smuggling by Angolan rebels deeper underground. But the newspaper quoted the secret report as saying, “It is obvious that the Belgians are playing a predominant role in traffic of arms, assets and diamonds to the profit of UNITA, with the aid of air transport. – AFP