Germany said Wednesday that the regime of Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi had lost all legitimacy, as evidence grew of a "bloodbath" in the North African country.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel described a televised address Tuesday by Libya's Muammar Gaddafi as "very scary" and said Berlin would consider sanctions unless he halted a crackdown on protestors.
The German police force helped train security officials from China and Uzbekistan - in addition to the ones from Libya that are at the centre of an ongoing scandal, a German newspaper has reported.
The German government was due to face questioning in parliament on Wednesday on whether officials knew that soldiers had moonlighted as trainers for Libya's security forces in 2005 and 2006.
In the affair involving secret training of Libyan security forces by German police, Interior Minister Ingo Wolf for the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) has announced that the state will review the last few years of vacation records for all police special forces officers.
According to a newspaper report, the alleged secret training of Libyan security forces by German police could have been in return for Tripoli's help in a Philippine hostage crisis.
Germany's BND intelligence agency has denied any involvement in the affair involving the clandestine training of Libyan security services by German police.