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THREE French troops have been killed in eastern Libya in what President Francois Hollande claimed yesterday was a helicopter accident.
But local militant group the Benghazi Defence Brigades (BDB) said they shot down the aircraft, killing four people — two Libyans and two foreigners.
Mr Hollande said the three soldiers were involved in a shadowy intelligence-gathering mission when their helicopter went down near al-Magrun, south of Benghazi, on Sunday.
As the government quietly upgrades the role of Britain’s special forces, their growing global footprint and near-total exemption from democratic oversight should alarm us all, says ROGER McKENZIE
As the cover-ups collapse, IAN SINCLAIR looks at the shocking testimony from British forces who would ‘go in and shoot everyone sleeping there’ during night raids — illegal, systematic murder spawned by an illegal invasion