Reply #33: Did you miss this part?

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(Thanks Concerned Canuck)

In London, the British Ministry of Defence insisted the group was part of a proper mission.

"It was official, it was an official military adventure training expedition, they were officially there as military cavers on a training expedition," a spokesman told AFP.

"All military adventure training exercises have a clearance procedure which is completed before approval, and inter-governmental contacts will have been made before the team left the UK," he said.

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20040326/wl_uk_afp/mexico_britain_caves_040326102738