Oil workers focus of Libya efforts

 Oil workers focus of Libya efforts: "British officials are drawing up plans with Nato allies to rescue hundreds of international oil workers stranded in camps in the Libyan desert.
With an SAS contingent reportedly on stand-by to assist, Defence Secretary Liam Fox said there would be an 'international co-ordinated effort' to extract the workers left at the mercy of armed gangs roaming the area.
As the first British nationals to be evacuated from the strife-torn North African state began arriving home, David Cameron said he was 'extremely sorry' for the delays to the rescue operation and promised lessons would be learned.
The Prime Minister, who is returning from his trip to the Gulf, will on Friday chair back-to-back meetings of the National Security Council and the Cobra emergencies committee in an attempt to reassert control after days of apparent drift in Whitehall.
A total of 132 British nationals finally arrived in Malta from Tripoli on the much-delayed Foreign Office-chartered flight while another 51 followed on an RAF Hercules. Seventy-nine more landed at Gatwick on an aircraft chartered by BP.
More than 100 UK citizens were preparing to leave Libya's second city, Benghazi, on the Royal Navy frigate HMS Cumberland, which will take them to Valetta in Malta, where they will pick up flights back to the UK."