Germany evacuates 132 people from Libyan desert in secret military mission

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BERLIN - The German air force evacuated 132 people from the Libya desert in a secret military mission, the country's foreign minister said Sunday, but thousands of other foreigners were still stuck in Tripoli by bad weather and red tape.

Two German military planes landed Saturday on a private runway belonging to the Wintershall AG company and evacuated 22 Germans and 112 others, Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle said in Berlin. The military planes later landed safely Saturday night on the Greek island of Crete.

Another 18 German citizens were rescued by the British military in a separate military operation Saturday that targeted remote oil installations in the Libyan desert, Westerwelle said. Around 100 other German citizens were still in Libya and the government was trying to get them out as quickly as possible, he said.