It was spin.
The UK mil thing was a tabloid spin. Nothing seems to have come of this story and its already old news. We see a familiar modern pattern in the rapacious military/media twist. There will be no UK SF assault. We will not be deploying search planes, or a rapid deployment force, or surgical strikes or anything else in a buzz word way.
There is a pattern this summer, developing. We have Syria with alleged chemical bombs and the Govt. wants to start a war, but loses consensus and it fades away. We have this Nigeria thing, and now its faded away, We have the missing yacht, and that now fades away.
Maybe the UK military are now viewed as...what? Media lozenges? Suck it for a bit and it eases the itch, but really offers no long term solution.