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British special forces 'blew up Isis suicide truck in Libya'
Source: Press Association
British special forces 'blew up Isis suicide truck in Libya'
Press Association
Thursday 26 May 2016 01.11 BST
British special forces reportedly blew up an Islamic State suicide truck in Libya earlier this month, a military commander there has said.
The strike apparently came when a vehicle, acting as a bomb, approached a bridge leading towards the city of Misrata in the north-west of the country.
UK forces appeared ready for the attack and fired a single missile during the incident on 12 May, Commander Mohammed Durat told the Times.
Describing the scene as the truck sped forward he said: “Our British friends seemed quite calm about it that day.”
Durat, of Misrata’s Third Force, said the special forces had plotted the coordinates and ranges required for a successful strike, telling the paper: “It blew up the suicide truck with a huge explosion, the biggest we have seen yet. Not one of our own forces was killed.”
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Press Association
Thursday 26 May 2016 01.11 BST
British special forces reportedly blew up an Islamic State suicide truck in Libya earlier this month, a military commander there has said.
The strike apparently came when a vehicle, acting as a bomb, approached a bridge leading towards the city of Misrata in the north-west of the country.
UK forces appeared ready for the attack and fired a single missile during the incident on 12 May, Commander Mohammed Durat told the Times.
Describing the scene as the truck sped forward he said: “Our British friends seemed quite calm about it that day.”
Durat, of Misrata’s Third Force, said the special forces had plotted the coordinates and ranges required for a successful strike, telling the paper: “It blew up the suicide truck with a huge explosion, the biggest we have seen yet. Not one of our own forces was killed.”
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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/may/26/british-special-forces-blew-up-isis-suicide-truck-in-libya
