Hague personally authorised botched SAS Libya mission

[dutchman]

Whitehall sources have told the BBC that the botched SAS mission to Libya was personally authorised by Foreign Secretary William Hague.



The six soldiers were freed along with a man described as a British Foreign Office official two days after being detained in eastern Libya.

They left for Malta on board HMS Cumberland on Sunday night.

The Foreign Secretary is to make a statement about the mission this afternoon in the Commons.