The seizing of a British special forces team in a bungled mission to contact Libyan rebels was due to a "serious misunderstanding", Foreign Secretary William Hague said Monday.
London was left red-faced by the attempt to put diplomats in contact with opposition forces in Benghazi at the weekend.
The team, reportedly made up of six soldiers from the elite Special Air Service (SAS) and two diplomats, flew into Libya by helicopter and made...
