Tuesday, March 8, 2011

The rebels reject talks with the British mission

Benghazi (Libya), Libya .- The rebel leadership on Tuesday rejected any dialogue with a British mission arrived in the area under its control and has already left Libya, considering that it had entered "illegally." "We welcome any British delegation, but has to be officially" Abdelhafiz Ghoga, in a press conference he gave in the city of Benghazi in the east.

The rebel leadership announced today that it was holding eight British citizens who were detained near Tobruk (east), where they arrived on a helicopter. From London it was said that this mission, which was part of a diplomat, trying to contact the Libyan National Council created to represent the districts of Libya has fallen into rebel hands.

The rebel spokesman said the eight Britons, a diplomat and his bodyguards, who have seized the equipment brought to Benghazi, were well treated and added that "we probably already on their way back." Ghoga denied that this incident has generated a crisis with the United Kingdom. The soldiers, members of British special forces SAS, shipped to Malta on HMS Cumberland, reported Al Jazeera.

According to one of its reporters, before boarding officer showed him a letter explaining that accompanied a diplomat trying to contact the rebel command.

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