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May 31, 2011

Western Special Forces Reportedly on the Ground in Libya 
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Al Jazeera has aired footage of armed westerners on the front line with
Libyan rebels near the city of Misrata. The Guardian newspaper reports
the video is the first apparent confirmation that foreign special ground
forces are playing an active role in the Libyan conflict. The western
troop presence may be in defiance of the U.N. security resolution
approved in March that specifically excludes, "a foreign occupation
force of any form on any part of Libyan territory." In related news,
eight senior Libyan military officers appeared in Rome Monday to
announce that they had defected from Col. Muammar Gaddafi's forces.



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