Wednesday, May 4, 2011

Brocklesby weighs in after 'very despicable act' by Gaddafi's forces


ROYAL Navy sailors have cleared mines from a war zone for the first time since Iraq as they prevented Col Gaddafi from holing up aid ships bound for the beleaguered city of Misrata.
HMS Brocklesby and other vessels in a NATO minehunting task force were searching the waters off the western Libyan port after enemy fast patrol boats were seen dropping what appeared to be a mine into the Gulf of Sirte.
The ships – NATO’s Standing Mine Counter Measures Group 1, part of the sizeable maritime force enforcing Operation Unified Protector – found two moored mines on the seabed intended to detonate on encountering passing ships in the approaches to Misrata harbour, plus evidence that a third had broken from its mooring and was floating free in the sea.

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