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UK-LIBYA: SAS deployed in Libya since start of year, says leaked memo - King Abdullah of Jordan indicates US was briefed about plans for Jordanian special forces to operate alongside British

25 March 2016

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"SAS forces have been deployed in Libya since the beginning of the year, according to a confidential briefing given to US congressional leaders by the king of Jordan.

A leaked memo indicates the US lawmakers were personally briefed by King Abdullah in January about plans for Jordan’s special forces to operate in the country alongside the British. According to the notes of the meeting in the week of 11 January, seen by the Guardian, King Abdullah confirmed his country’s own special forces “will be imbedded [sic] with British SAS” in Libya....

• Intelligence agencies want to keep terrorist websites “open so they can use them to track extremists” and Google had told the Jordanian monarch “they have 500 people working on this”."

See the article: SAS deployed in Libya since start of year, says leaked memo - King Abdullah of Jordan indicates US was briefed about plans for Jordanian special forces to operate alongside British (Guardian, link)

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