Britain to explain botched Libya mission: "Britain says it will send a new team to establish contacts with Libya's opposition despite a botched weekend mission in which special forces soldiers and diplomats were mistaken for mercenaries.
Foreign Secretary William Hague, who authorized the plan, was scheduled to make a statement to Parliament later on Monday to explain the failure.
Hague confirmed on Sunday that a diplomatic team had been briefly detained by anti-Gadhafi forces after they landed close to Benghazi.
Some of the eight people detained were reportedly carrying explosives and fake passports.
In a phone-call broadcast on Libyan television, after the conversation was seemingly intercepted, Britain's ambassador made a humbling apology to an opposition spokesman for the unannounced arrival."
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