Hague personally authorised botched SAS Libya mission

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.