Posted on 09/12/2009 9:43:08 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
LONDON – Some of Britain's most elite soldiers have been training Libyan forces in counterterrorism and surveillance for the past six months, a newspaper said Saturday.
The Daily Telegraph said a contingent of between four and 14 men from the Special Air Service, or SAS, were working with Col. Moammar Gadhafi's soldiers in Libya, a country once notorious for its support of terrorism.
The paper cited an unidentified SAS source as saying that the training was seen as part of the deal to release Lockerbie bomber Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, whose return to Libya last month outraged Americans and raised questions over the nature of Britain's relationship with Gadhafi's authoritarian regime.
Britain's military refused to comment on the Telegraph's report. ..
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Have the Brits gone completely over the edge?
Great — train the terrorists how to fight your own elite units. That’s just great.
Not only providing military aid to a terrorist regime but paying them to take back their own hero. National Suicide.
That is what happens when you don’t riot for your republic.
The ti has come to take England’s nuclear arsenal and hold it in safekeeping.
The Brits have sold out.
I wonder if placing bombs on airplanes is part of the training?
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