Monday, March 7, 2011

The British Army is ready to develop "humanitarian operations" in Libya

London. .- The Ministry of Defence in the UK has confirmed that British troops are "waiting" to receive the order to start a mission of a "humanitarian law" in Libya, as reported by Sky News, in a "coordinated effort "to deploy in eastern DRC diplomats and a team of specialist advisers, charged with coordinating the offensive by rebel forces against Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi.

The MoD has stressed that the ultimate goal of the mission will be to protect civilians and said that its soldiers will not enter into combat if they are not subject to direct attack. Last night, government sources on condition of anonymity, and pointed to the newspaper 'The Telegraph' that London was considering to include in this deployment, special forces and MI6 (British intelligence service), within a mission , externally, would be presented as a purely diplomatic effort.

The focal contacts between anti Gafadi forces and the British Government would be the British ambassador to Libya, Richard Northern, who left the country last month, British newspapers quoted these officials. According to the media, international diplomats have expressed concern about the possibility that the Libyan opposition is not directed well enough to properly organize their efforts to overthrow Gaddafi.

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