Libyan troops training at Bassingbourn barracks to be sent home early after Cambridge sex attacks

[AngryAmish]

http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/Libyan-troops-training-Bassingbourn-barracks-sent/story-24063188-detail/story.html


More than 300 Libyan Army cadets stationed at Bassingbourn barracks will be sent home early after two of them admitted sexually assaulting women in Cambridge.

The Ministry of Defence confirmed that the troops, who were due to train at Bassingbourn until the end of November, will go home in the next few days.


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Further troops were due to train at Bassingbourn - but that will now be reviewed, the MoD said.

The decisions came as two other Libyan troops were charged with the rape of a man in Cambridge, and follows pressure on the MoD from South ..."

Ok, can we now call the stupid Libyan war a failure?

[grahamhgreen]

1. Failure.

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[merrily]

2. Three Afghan troops at Cape Cod messed up, too, but nowhere near that badly.

They just left for Canada, supposedly to seek asylum.

http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2014/09/30/afghan-soldiers-who-left-cape-cod-for-canada-tell-their-story/p98qa6paROcO7bs6wsZB3L/story.html

It was a bit disconcerting between the time that we learned they had disappeared and no one knew why or where, until they were found. The Boston area (including the namesake of Cambridge, England that is home to Harvard and MIT) are so diverse that, in civilian clothes, they could have hidden here in plain sight, if they wished.

[mythology]

3. By that logic

do we say that World War II was a failure because U.S. troops stationed in Japan have committed rape against a 12 year old Japanese girl?

There are reasons to be against the Libyan war, but the fact that 1.3% of the soldiers training in the U.K. did something wrong isn't on the list. Especially given that our own military has a much higher rate of sexual violence.

[KG]

4. it's a failure that keeps on failing, kinda like that iraq thingie...