300 Libyan soldiers sent home from UK after sexual assaults

[Treacle Toes]

yup. ...
it is what wiki says drunk misspelling .

(sorry for making this thread a geography quiz oops. )

No drama. You could be right! Porto Novo, old name for the capital, direct links to Brazil because of the slave trading port and many Afro-Brazilains settled back there after emancipation.

 

[likesfish]

It also depends on the type of troops you send.
Gadaffi probably only sent the "elite" house trained and plenty of cash for whores etc no problems
Plane load of milita types completely diffrent kettle of fish

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Benefican?

A misspelling of 'American'.

 

[kebabking]

I saw this, and thought it was a bit stupid to do the training in England. Normally you'd do it in Libya.

that was the original plan - about half of 4 Mech Bde were due to go over, run a training camp/ranges etc.. and do the job in situ. then however the govt decided that the security situation was so bad that such an op couldn't/wouldn't be risked without a massive (and bollock grippingly expensive..) deployment (5/6000 strong). so they looked for a new plan - the Falklands was considered, as was the SBA on Cyprus, Fort George near Inverness, Brawdy in Pembrokeshire, but Bassingbourne was pretty empty, and cheap...

the problems have been long running - of the original 400 some 25% have either withdrawn or been sent home, 3 have applied for assylum, the Army had to bring around 400 soldiers from the Royal Regiment of Scotland down to impose order/security, over and above the original training and camp staff. there have been riots, accomodation blocks have been trashed, and among the Libyans themselves rape, beatings and theft are just part of the furniture, and its alleged that one of the Chapels has been destroyed, along with the Regimental Colours stored there.

its been a complete disaster. the FCO is reputed to have been resisting getting rid, but the Army and the politicians want them gone.

 

[BandWagon]

What a shambles. Sounds like we shouldn't have bothered. I suppose the politicians decided we had to 'help', ie interfere.

 

[kebabking]

you could argue that it could/should have been done in the aftermath of the departure of our friend, but now..?

i can't them coming back to the UK - every constituancy MP with a hundred miles of whatever lucky location gets them will go ape shit - and i doubt any other country is going to rush to volunteer their services.

 

[Celyn]

... the Army had to bring around 400 soldiers from the Royal Regiment of Scotland down to impose order/security, over and above the original training and camp staff. there have been riots, accomodation blocks have been trashed, and among the Libyans themselves rape, beatings and theft are just part of the furniture, and its alleged that one of the Chapels has been destroyed, along with the Regimental Colours stored there.

its been a complete disaster. the FCO is reputed to have been resisting getting rid, but the Army and the politicians want them gone.

Bloody hell. They sound like a charming bunch. The Army seems to be very good at news management, 'cos all this rioting and trashing off accommodation blocks seems to have been kept quiet.