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Thursday 2 June 2011

British boots have been on the ground for months, “mission creep” sucking Britain far deeper into a North African conflic


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THE young Western men in peaked caps and sunglasses snapped directing Libyan rebels help explain a mystery.

I bet the six SAS and two MI6 agents with guns, explosives and maps captured in March weren’t escorting a diplomat.

The smokescreen was erected because, as a Libyan contact suggested to me at the time, they’d landed by helicopter to fight Gaddafi’s forces.



British boots have been on the ground for months, “mission creep” sucking Britain far deeper into a North African conflict than Ministers dare admit.

TEAM of Special Forces troops was  sent to join HMS Ocean off the coast of Libya - to help our helicopter pilots zero in on Gaddafi's fighters.

Men from the feared SAS and SBS will ride in Apache choppers, using their expertise to "read" the battleground and identify hard-to-spot targets such as snipers around the port city of Misrata.

A top insider told The Sun: "They are going to help in a command and control capacity. It's a job they have perfected over years in Afghanistan."

Meanwhile Gaddafi's government said for the first time it was prepared to negotiate with rebels.


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