The
newspaper quoted Algerian military sources as saying French
unmanned aerial vehicles and warplanes had been searching
for several days for a group of Special Forces soldiers
lost in the desert. France reportedly requested Algeria
to provide its air space for French planes to ease the
search, but the request was not satisfied, the paper said.
The
lost French soldiers were later found and evacuated, it
said.
El
Khabar has suggested that the units might have been involved
in a special operation against forces loyal to embattled
Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi.
