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RAF Hercules pick up two Maltese in the desert

RAF Hercules aircraft picked up two Maltese oil workers from the desert in their second daring rescue from Libya yesterday.

Three aircraft were involved in the rescue, with one of them suffering slight damage from light ground fire. No one was injured. 150 workers were rescued.

Special forces of the SAS are believed to have been involved in the operation.

Another Maltese worker was rescued in a similar operation on Saturday.

See details of the operation and footage of the arrival of one of the Hercules at

http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20110227/local/raf-flies-in-more-workers-in-second-libya-military-operation

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Alan Cordina

Feb 28th 2011, 11:47

Spot on Matthew.
I am an avid military enthusiast. It is my keen interest, maybe I can even call it a passion. And I have been (detail) reading about these such ops, since I can ever remember (young age). But these detailed reports, almost minute by minute, as they happen, on the newspapers, are way out of league, very dangerous (to the "crews") like you very well wrote, and rest assured that the "crews" themselves are not liking it !

Alan Cordina

Feb 28th 2011, 14:21

My only suspicion is, that the authorities are deliberately trickling these pieces of info to the press ..... so that they keep the readers happy with the good news and so reduce the ever present segment of us Maltese that keep on honking away about neutrality and lambasting the allowing of military presence at our airport, happy ! ....... because that kind of nonsense and nuisance can be damaging from a different angle too. So its a kind of a compromise.

D.Galea

Feb 28th 2011, 11:57

Being neutral is not being against, check your dictionary.

K.Anastasi

Feb 28th 2011, 12:50

@D.Galea

Maybe instead of me checking the dictionary, you could read my post again .... as I refer to bloggers " as they" and not myself.

A. Zahra

Feb 28th 2011, 13:23

@ r galea.
Have you not read Reno Calleja's comment.

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