(#Libya) More on Botched Dutch Rescue - I Smell NATO

The two who were rescued may not be the "embassy" personnel at all - one is a Dutch man, the other a Swedish woman.

Of the three Dutch Marines who have been caught, at least one of them is a woman.

This AOL News article has the video footage:

Sure, women should be in the combat, or the rescue mission in a hostile country which may be particularly hostile to women. Equal opportunity, right?

Unfortunately men and women are not created equal. Women, at least majority of them, do not have the same physical strength of men because they are simply anatomically different - cannot carry heavy loads as much, cannot run as fast.

Aside from the politically correct Marines of the Netherlands, do you think the Dutch prime minister in the video is telling the truth when he quickly assures, yes of course it was on our government's order that the Marines went in?

I think he is lying. He probably didn't even know about the mission. Just my guess, no basis.

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(#Libya) Dutch Marines Caught by Gaddafi Forces

I bet they won't be released easily like the UK's SAS captured by the opposition forces ...

From Al Jazeera Libya Blog (3/7/2011):

9:34am

Intensive diplomatic consultations are ongoing between the Netherlands and Libya following the capture of three Dutch marines in Sirte on February 27.

The Marines landed their helicopter on the beach of Sirte in an attempt to evacuate two employees of the Dutch consulate in Libya. The Libyan army subsequently arrested them.

The evacuees were transferred to the Dutch embassy shortly after the incident, but the marines remain in Libyan custody. Gaddafi has referred to them as ‘prisoners’.

“We are doing everything we can. Due to the sensitivity of the matter we cannot say when we had our last contact with the Libyans,” a spokesperson of the Dutch defence ministry told Al Jazeera.

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