Hague personally authorised botched SAS Libya mission
Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2011 1:50 pmWhitehall 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.
