UK operated US drones over Libya

LONDON (AP) ? Britain's government says its armed forces operated U.S. drones over Libya last year in support of the NATO mission there.

While the American use of drones in Libya was previously known ? a U.S. Predator drone took part in the airstrike that hit a convoy carrying ousted Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi ? British officials had insisted that no U.K. drones were involved there or have been used outside of Afghanistan.

On Thursday, the Ministry of Defense said that was still the case, but confirmed that Royal Air Force personnel embedded within a U.S. unit had operated "armed Remotely Piloted Air Systems missions" against Gadhafi's forces in Libya in 2011.

U.K. armed forces routinely embed within units of allied nations ? and vice versa ? through exchange programs.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/uk-operated-us-drones-over-libya-211544889.html

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