General of Darkness
2nd September 2013, 06:18 PM
WoW.
US leaves ‘unreliable’ British out in the cold
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Central Command, headed by General Lloyd Austin, has downgraded the role of British officers Martin Bureau/AFP/Getty Images
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Sam Coates (http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/public/profile/Sam-Coates), Michael Evans and Tom Coghlan (http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/public/profile/Tom-Coghlan)
Updated 57 minutes ago
British military chiefs are being ejected from US meetings about Syria in the first direct consequence of David Cameron’s refusal to join military action.
The role of senior British officers based at US Central Command in Tampa, Florida, has been downgraded because they cannot be trusted with high-level intelligence about a conflict with which they are no longer involved, military sources say.
About 30 British personnel have been working alongside the Americans and French at the headquarters, fine-tuning a list of targets and orchestrating military assets as part of war planning underway for weeks.
After the Commons rejected a motion
US leaves ‘unreliable’ British out in the cold
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Central Command, headed by General Lloyd Austin, has downgraded the role of British officers Martin Bureau/AFP/Getty Images
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Sam Coates (http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/public/profile/Sam-Coates), Michael Evans and Tom Coghlan (http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/public/profile/Tom-Coghlan)
Updated 57 minutes ago
British military chiefs are being ejected from US meetings about Syria in the first direct consequence of David Cameron’s refusal to join military action.
The role of senior British officers based at US Central Command in Tampa, Florida, has been downgraded because they cannot be trusted with high-level intelligence about a conflict with which they are no longer involved, military sources say.
About 30 British personnel have been working alongside the Americans and French at the headquarters, fine-tuning a list of targets and orchestrating military assets as part of war planning underway for weeks.
After the Commons rejected a motion