A British oil worker, stranded in the middle of the Libyan desert with some 300 others, has said the UK government is ignoring their desperate pleas for rescue.This summarises an interview on the Today programme. They are saying the British Embassy is useless and is now ignoring them.
James Coyle told the Today programme that they only have one day's supply of food and water, and no means of protecting themselves from armed looters, who have already raided nearby camps.
"At the end of the day we are living a nightmare," he said. "We are here, desperate for the British government to come and get us".
The BBC do not trouble to mention this story on their main web news page.
Update 11.05 on the BBC's rolling news page:
Britain's foreign office has been trying to reassure Britons stranded in Libya that everything is being done help them. A statement just released from the foreign office tells Britons stranded in camps in the desert to stay where they are for the time being if they are safe there. "Communications are very difficult in Libya at the moment, but we are doing all we can to contact every British National in Libya so that we can help them," the statement says.Still useless.
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I've never really had much faith in the F.O. ever since some of my colleagues were stuck in Kuwait when the first Iraq invasion occured. They're first hand accounts revealed that the British Embassy was worse than useless, giving them false info and leaving them entirely to their own devices. The Scandanavian Embassies were far more helpful.
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