[PDF file]: […] The entire cadre of Stirling’s assistant commanders in Watchguard appear to have been current or ‘recently retired’ members of either the regular 22nd Special Air Service ( SAS) regiment (e.g. Lt-Col. John Woodhouse) or the Territorial 21st (e.g. Col. Jim Johnson4 ). Many of the regular mercenaries were also ex-UK special forces and, specifically, […]
[PDF file]: […] forces, which would have given an early warning of any possible invasion, was the British Commander-in-Chief’s Mission to the Soviet Forces in Germany (BRIXMIS).2 3 Former 22 SAS soldier Ken Connor was a Warrant Officer in BRIXMIS in the mid-1980s, during the final phase of his service with UK Special Forces (UKSF) – although […]
[PDF file]: […] Airports in Afghanistan, signed between the Deputy Director General of the Afghanistan Civil Aviation Authority and Guy Johnston of Olive Group.6 The exCommanding Officer of the 22nd SAS, Lt. General Cedric Delves DSO7 was a director of Olive. 8 On the topic of government spending on PMCs, earlier this year, writing in the Guardian, […]
[PDF file]: […] of Afghanistan from 1980. Despite a concerted media campaign, in the UK to deny this, the evidence suggests that British mercenaries recruited through the 23rd Airborne, territorial SAS (otherwise known as R-Squadron) played a major role in this campaign and especially in training future Taliban and alQaida. (Carew, 2001) Much of what we know […]
[PDF file]: […] of the still to be commissioned force was dependent upon applicants successfully completing a rigorous physical and mental training programme, devised and supervised by members of 21 SAS (TA). During this training period they came into contact 5 See, for example, . ‘Private “military-style force” gets government backing’, New Statesman 10 February 1984. See […]
[…] of the still to be commissioned force was dependent upon applicants successfully completing a rigorous physical and mental training programme, devised and supervised by members of 21 SAS (TA). During this training period they came into contact with Squadron Leader Sandys, who represented the RAF on the Emergency See, for example, . ‘Private “military-style […]
[PDF file]: […] will by then be identifiable as the key issues. What these may be are indicated in our report; but we recognise that events can confound predictions.’ The SAS did Di? First there was one ‘SAS-killed-Diana’ story. But as that story, to quote the Mirror, ‘….came in a letter to the elite unit’s commanding officer […]
[PDF file]: […] the British government was determined to keep him in power. Smiley took charge of the operation to capture the last rebel stronghold, the Jebel Akhdar plateau. The SAS were brought in to secure access to the plateau and they and their apologists subsequently claimed credit for the defeat of the rebellion, much to Smiley’s […]
[PDF file]: […] – is disingenuous at best. In a similar manner, the way he is selectively short on the detail, provides a skewed picture when he briefly mentions the SAS killing of three IRA members on Gibraltar – the infamous ‘Operation Flavius’: As Farrell, McCann and Savage crossed the Spanish border into Gibraltar, they were intercepted […]
[…] – is disingenuous at best. In a similar manner, the way he is selectively short on the detail, provides a skewed picture when he briefly mentions the SAS killing of three IRA members on Gibraltar – the infamous ‘Operation Flavius’: As Farrell, McCann and Savage crossed the Spanish border into Gibraltar, they were intercepted […]
