“The heat and dust of the 27th Brigade parade ground on Tripoli's southern outskirts is a world away from the mist and cold of Cambridgeshire. Under an unforgiving sun, young Libyan army recruits in buzz-cuts march up and down to barked commands, dark sweat stains spreading across crisp new green uniforms. But next month they will be swapping this heat for the cold and damp of eastern England's Bassingbourn barracks, from where they will return as the speartip of Nato's new military intervention in Libya,” revealed the Observer.

Furthermore, the newspaper said, “Two years after its bombing campaign spurred the rebels to victory in the Arab spring, Nato is coming back, this time to create an army to fill Libya's security vacuum. Alarm is spreading in western capitals about the country's growing chaos and militia violence, and evidence that al-Qaida is setting up bases in what is rapidly becoming a failed state. Having destroyed most of Libya's army in the 2011 bombing campaign, Britain and the United States are leading an operation to build a new one.”

Diplomats have voiced their dread as to the chaos that Libya might witness and which might transform it into another Afghanistan or Somalia; a lawless land and a haven for al-Qaeda on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea.