Einst bekämpften die einen Terroristen, die von den anderen ausgerüstet und ausgebildet wurden. Nun, da in Libyen Demokratie und Rechtsstaat herrschen, können die Gegner von einst endlich sich versöhnen:
„For the past six months Britain’s elite troops have been schooling soldiers working for Col Muammar Gaddafi’s regime, which for years provided Republican terrorists with the Semtex explosive, machine-guns and anti-aircraft missiles used against British troops during the Troubles in Northern Ireland. [..]
Defence sources said the training arrangement must have been given high-level political approval.
Members of Britain’s elite regiment are angry at having to help train soldiers from a country that for years armed terrorists they fought against.
An SAS source said: ‚A small SAS training team have been doing it for the last six months as part of this cosy deal with the Libyans.'“