The unnamed “junior diplomat” that the British government deployed to Eastern Libya over the weekend in a failed mission with several SAS soldiers was, according to media reports, not a diplomat but a member of the MI6.
The reports suggest that the MI6 agent was, as the previous story indicated, there to make contact with the rebel faction, and was to lay out a plan to allow actual diplomats to deploy to East Libya formally.
The troops were quickly captured by a militia loyal to the East Libyan rebel faction and, after being brought before the leadership and spent the weekend in a military brig. They were expelled on Sunday.
British Prime Minister David Cameron has been distancing himself from the fiasco since then, and Foreign Secretary William Hague is said to accept “full responsiblity” for the mission, though he insisted he was blameless for its failure. The move has seriously embarrassed Hague.
"British Prime Minister David Cameron has been distancing himself from the fiasco since then, and Foreign Secretary William Hague is said to accept “full responsiblity” for the mission, though he insisted he was blameless for its failure."
As British Prime Minister, Cameron would have green-lighted this screw up. Jolly good show there Prime Minister.
If armed Libyan "diplomats" were moving around the US trying to contact local militants opposed to the US Government I do not believe this would be welcome.
There were 2 MI6 men – one incoming and one, Tom, who had been working in administration at the al Khadra Farm complex. He had been in place for 5 months. He brought the group to the farm. There was therefore already an MI6 man place. Why go through all this rigarmarole of sending in SAS and a ‘diplomat’ with multiple passports?
This was a SAS/MI6 military operation.An act of war! Of course Cameron and Hague had to give the "greenlight"! Thier actions of denial are laughable and contempuous!Had this operation succeeded, these politions would of been claiming all the glory ,if it became public, or would be standing in parliment claiming it was "al quada" terrorists and there is no other option but military invasion!!(yes ,a FALSE FLAG operation to justify a war)
As they where all military in "plainclothes" they can consider themselves very lucky they where not ALL SHOT AS SPIES!!
Especially when you consider the rebel arms dump exploded just before thier capture!
Libyan rebel arms depot explodes
Anti-Gadhafi forces rocked, at least 60 die http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/11064/1129900-82.s…
Also the Dutch where caught with military forces in Libya and are desperate to keep it quiet.
Three Dutch marines captured during rescue in Libya
Talks are under way to free a Dutch helicopter crew captured in Libya trying to evacuate foreign citizens, the Netherlands' defence ministry says http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-12633415
Must be coincidence that both the UK and Holland have big oil companies functioning in Libya! Its just the taxpayer funded standing armies getting used for corporate gain again at the orders of the politions!
The difference is that Qaddafi caught the Dutch. They've probably been dead for a while. These fumbling British idiots were caught and released by the Libyan protesters.
The rich nobility of England tell all their politicians what to say and when to say it, and surely this was no act of stupidity, but some type of one-upmanship to keep Gaddafi in power or make sure another puppet like him takes control.
For England is the most intelligent, cunning and deceitful nation on earth, brainpower dictatorship that this world be, to prove the harm in it has God destined it you see. For England causes us to act the most stupid, if we for a moment think their incompetent, foolish or stupid.
Really? "The move has seriously embarrassed Hague" I'll bet, instead they are cheering the event–all released unharmed and massion accomplished. Arab cloths and make-up removed–innocent?
And the plot thickens. Raymond Davis British style.
First, are the Mossad assassins fumbling all over the place and getting caught. Then, there's the Flotilla incident with that supposedly special forces group of thugs having their asses beaten. Then, it's Raymond Davis. Now, it's James Bond. Is anybody seeing the pattern here? Does this mean that the empire is getting so cumbersome, old and incompetent that it can't even get out of its own way anymore? Yep. Dark times are ahead, people. Once the imperial operations abroad are all shut down, they'll turn inward. The Minitlove is already in place and hard at work.
Look people: 1- there are verity of Libyan problem solving (ideas) seams to be out there but most of them is about a military solutions then a political one. No fly zoon is the latest suggestion by France and England, and USG (US Gov) saying that the " military action is possible". By that almost everyone in Western diplomatic terms mentioning the need of a military action which echoes from Europe to USA.
”WASHINGTON — American military planners are sifting through a range of options as the United States, like other Western nations, weighs the response to the bloody Libyan military assaults on rebels trying to oust Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi.” NY Times March 7, 2011
2- Here if the idea is true which most luckily to be.., is what was the start of Iraq occupation, the idea in no fly zoon was introduced by USG during Bill Clinton administration and Madeline Albright as his states secretary.., she did what she could to implement the idea, British, Tony Blair Labor government., France, Germany and few other European government were the followers.., this time the same idea have resurfaced by no less then senator John Kerry proposing that: ”America not only set up a no-fly zone over Libya but bomb its airports and runways to temporarily disable Moammar Gaddafi's air power”. The Democrat Senator added that the U.S. and its allies should be committed to disarming Gaddafi if he threatened mass killings with fighters and helicopters. Read more:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1363646/J…
3- Having said that, the Iraq isolation started with no fly zoon which resulted in 14 years of bombardment of Iraqi infrastructures, here the US and EU looking to do the same to Libyan situation by isolating the country at first and destroying what the country have accomplished. Yet the USG and according to reports is already supplying arms to rebels which indicating the fact that this war is going to be a long one. America's secret plan to arm Libya's rebels
4- Obama asks Saudis to airlift weapons into Benghazi
By Robert Fisk, Middle East Correspondent Monday, 7 March 2011 Independent News paper.
Saudi Arabia has not yet responded to a request from the US to supply weapons to rebels in Libya. Desperate to avoid US military involvement in Libya in the event of a prolonged struggle between the Gaddafi regime and its opponents, the Americans have asked Saudi Arabia if it can supply weapons to the rebels in Benghazi. The Saudi Kingdom, already facing a "day of rage" from its 10 per cent Shia Muslim community on Friday, with a ban on all demonstrations, has so far failed to respond to Washington's highly classified request, although King Abdullah personally loathes the Libyan leader, who tried to assassinate him just over a year ago.
Counterpunch contributors have dubbed mainstream media:FCM for Fawning Corporate Media and not without good cause.Most reports I have seen still try to claim that it was a “diplomatic mission” including replaying the pathetic lies from the British ambassadore to a “rebel” leader that thy just wanted to check if the hotels did kosher meals.
Couldn't they have just checked a tourist guidebook for that information and called ahead? (On the other hand, assuming the hotel story was real, and throwing in the kosher factor for laughs…given the tension between Israel and Libya, I'd be rather surprised to find any establishment in nominally muslim Libya that would be offering kosher products at all- how much of a market for that would there be?)