WHY WILL BRITISH GOVERNMENT NOT DENY THEY ASSASSINATED GADDAFI?

A report on BBC Newsnight tonight will detail how British Special Forces assisted the Libyan al Qaeda rebs last year.

Or will it?

An article on the report is on the BBC website. It provides some details on some operations. Generally the admission is, yes, the British did have some boots on the ground, but not many, and they were very well disguised as, well, Libyan al Qaeda rebs.

We knew this already. All the BBC 'investigation' does is name a few squadrons and what some personnel may or may not have been wearing.

But I take the following from the article.
1. British Special Forces were training the Libyan al Qaeda rebs inside Libya, and towards the end of the struggle were always with NTC commanders
2. but there is no comment, neither a confirmation or denial, that BSF were involved in the assassination of Gaddafi.

The SAS had meanwhile strayed beyond its training facility, with single men or pairs accompanying the NTC commanders that they had been training back to their units. They dressed as Libyans and blended in with the units they mentored, says someone familiar with the operation.

There had been concerns that they would be spotted by the press, but this did not happen. "We have become a lot better at blending in," says someone familiar with the D Squadron operation. "Our people were able to stay close to the NTC commanders without being compromised."

Instead, as the revolutionaries fought their way into Gaddafi's home town of Sirte, they were assisted by a handful of British and other special forces. Members of the Jordanian and United Arab Emirates armies had fallen in behind the Qataris too.

When, on 20 October, Gaddafi was finally captured and then killed by NTC men, it followed Nato air strikes on a convoy of vehicles carrying leading members of the former regime as they tried to escape from Sirte early in the morning. Had British soldiers on the ground had a hand in this? Nobody will say yet.

In keeping with its long standing policies on special forces and MI6 operations, Whitehall has refrained from public statements about the nature of assistance on the ground. The Ministry of Defence reiterated that policy when asked to comment on this story.

[source : Inside story of the UK's secret mission to beat Gaddafi,BBC, 18/1/2012]

It appears that the British government is quite happy to allow these kind of alleged details of the war in Libya to filter through, but when it comes to the very public assassination of Gaddafi we are given the standard comment, "we can neither confirm nor deny that we are greedy imperialist fascists who will betray our own grandchildren into the hands of our lord satan for his kiddie fiddling pleasure".