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  • 350 UK Special Forces Soldiers in Libya

    In total it is understood that just under 250 UK special forces soldiers and their support have been in Libya since before the launch of air strikes to enforce the no-fly zone against Gaddafi’s forces.

    The troops in Libya were drawn from a squadron of SAS and SBS personnel, some who have been in the country for a month and are being re-supplied with water, food and ammunition via airdrops from Cyprus.

    Those numbers were further boosted by nearly 100 this week when paratroopers from the Special Forces Support Group (SFSG) were sent to Libya as coalition commanders prepare to increase the tempo of operations.

    A further 800 Royal Marines are on five days’ notice to deploy to the Mediterranean to support humanitarian relief and aid operations.

    The beefing up of the Special Forces contingent comes as commanders switch attacks against command and control centres to low-level attacks against Gaddafi’s tanks.

    Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...#ixzz1HfBZHNfv


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    The UN SC gave the resoloution on a Friday (ish) and the Air crusade started the next day;

    In total it is understood that just under 250 UK special forces soldiers and their support have been in Libya since before the launch of air strikes to enforce the no-fly zone against Gaddafi’s forces.

    Are you really telling us that UK forces were illegaly in Lybia;

    that is UK Forces went into a soverign country without being invited?

    Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose
    Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
    Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
    The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere***
    The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
    The best lack all conviction, while the worst
    Are full of passionate intensity.

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    • #3
      the daily mail....haha
      Everyone who's ever loved you was wrong.

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      • #4
        Where's Lybia? Is it near Labia?


        Catch-22 says they have a right to do anything we can't stop them from doing.

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        • #5
          another country ye are going to war in .. more promotions etc...

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          • #6
            Sounds illegal to me. NO UNSC mandate.


            Catch-22 says they have a right to do anything we can't stop them from doing.

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            • #7
              250 would be more than a squadron of SAS & SBS

              Wasn't there something about no ground operations within the UNSC?

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              • #8
                Originally posted by RoyalGreenJacket View Post
                In total it is understood that just under 250 UK special forces soldiers and their support have been in Libya since before the launch of air strikes to enforce the no-fly zone against Gaddafi’s forces.

                The troops in Libya were drawn from a squadron of SAS and SBS personnel, some who have been in the country for a month and are being re-supplied with water, food and ammunition via airdrops from Cyprus.

                Those numbers were further boosted by nearly 100 this week when paratroopers from the Special Forces Support Group (SFSG) were sent to Libya as coalition commanders prepare to increase the tempo of operations.

                A further 800 Royal Marines are on five days’ notice to deploy to the Mediterranean to support humanitarian relief and aid operations.

                The beefing up of the Special Forces contingent comes as commanders switch attacks against command and control centres to low-level attacks against Gaddafi’s tanks.

                Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...#ixzz1HfBZHNfv


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                This is so, so exciting- I cannot wait for the wargame video-can I play the good guy this time.
                Last edited by timhorgan; 26 March 2011, 12:39.

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by Goldie fish View Post
                  Where's Lybia? Is it near Labia?


                  In total it is understood that just under 250 UK special forces soldiers and their support have been in Libya
                  Could possibly be LYDIA- well known young lady from Much Marcle who likes to entertain the boys from Credenhill but even then, 250 seems a lot in such a short space of time.
                  If true, fair play to her.
                  Last edited by timhorgan; 26 March 2011, 12:45.

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                  • #10
                    Oh Libya, oh Libya.., oh have you bombed Libya....
                    Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum

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                    • #11
                      Didn't the Daily Mail also once claim that the SAS were involved in knife fighting through massive cave complexes in Southern Afghanistan.

                      And that refugees cause cancer?
                      "It is a general popular error to imagine that loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for it's welfare" Edmund Burke

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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by Goldie fish View Post
                        Sounds illegal to me. NO UNSC mandate.
                        Who cares? Where's JAG to give us the "there's no international law, dudes" line?

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                        • #13
                          Well its an invasion of a foreign country. In any language it's illegal.


                          Catch-22 says they have a right to do anything we can't stop them from doing.

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                          • #14
                            Not really surprising if there are SAS/SBS on the ground though is it. France and the UK were calling for a no fly zone for weeks, and the SAS were on the ground evacuating Brits from Lybia in Febuary, as were Dutch Marines. 250 does seem a rather large number, but I guess between doing target recce, and I would assume, training some rebel forces, there could well be that number on the ground.
                            What are you cackling at, fatty? Too much pie, that's your problem.

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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by Goldie fish View Post
                              Well its an invasion of a foreign country. In any language it's illegal.
                              Illegal according to who ? Or to what ?? The UN is not a world government... it is little more than a very dysfunctional consultation body...

                              According to your logic, the Cdn Forces, including SOF, that went to Lebanon in 2006 to evacuate Canadian citizens were there illegally ? They were invading the country ??
                              "On the plains of hesitation, bleach the bones of countless millions, who on the very dawn of victory, laid down to rest, and in resting died.

                              Never give up!!"

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