The SAS is reportedly involved in training Libyan special forces. Elite UK troops have apparently been working with Colonel Gaddafi's regime for the last six months, despite Tripoli arming the IRA in the past.
Sources within the SAS are unhappy with the training arrangement, they are also angry at being ordered to train soldiers from a country that provided the IRA with weapons used against British troops in Northern Ireland, the paper claimed.
The Ministry of Defence has told Dark Lochnagar that it does not comment on SAS activities.
The Foreign Office said: "There is an ongoing co-operation with Libya in the field of defence."
An SAS source told the paper: "A small SAS training team have been doing it for the last six months as part of this cosy deal with the Libyans. Another SAS soldier said: "The IRA was our greatest adversary - now we are training their backers. There was a weary rolling of the eyes when we were told about this."
Robin Horsfall, a former SAS soldier who took part in the Iranian Embassy siege in 1980 and fought the IRA in Northern Ireland, said: "There is a long list of British soldiers who have died because of Gaddafi funding terrorists. The SAS is being ordered to do something it knows is morally wrong."
It is believed the first moves towards setting up the training agreement began after Tony Blair visited Libya as Prime Minister in 2004. The deal was only finalised and "signed off" by Gordon Brown this year.
IS THERE NO DEPTH TO WHICH THESE SCUMMY LABOUR BASTARDS WON'T PLUMB?There is a world of a difference, freeing a man with terminal cancer on compassionate grounds and training the troops of a regime which is RESPONSIBLE FOR HUNDREDS OF BRITISH SOLDIERS' LIVES!
