Tuesday, 29. March 2011
Topic: War and Peace News - on March 29, 2011 at 1:29:00 PM CEST
Libya: special forces poised to swoop in - SAS 'Smash' squads on the ground in Libya to mark targets for coalition jets
Officials from the Foreign Office were locked in frantic efforts to locate the remaining UK nationals thought to be oil workers marooned in remote desert compounds in the south of the troubled country.
On Saturday, following days of criticism over the Government's handling of the crisis, members of the special forces, who had been in Libya for almost a week, pressed the button and rolled out a text-book extraction of 150 people – a third of them British.
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