Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)
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[PDF file]: […] Party, is one of the more interesting mainstream politicians today. He is a prominent defender of civil liberties, a free marketeer, a sometime member of a territorial SAS regiment and – this is what made me take notice – was a close friend of the late Tony Benn. Surprising? Yes, a bit: but both […]
Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)
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[PDF file]: […] that government embarrassment could lead to more documents been retained. An uproar ensued when documents released showed that Lord Howe, the then foreign secretary, had sent an SAS officer to advice Gandhi on the Golden Temple siege in Amritsar. Subsequently the raid on the temple led to the killing of hundreds of Sikhs. Cameron […]
Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014)
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[PDF file]: […] shocked at the torture at NAMA that it withdrew its interrogators from the base in August 2003’. He quotes one former NAMA interrogator who saw ‘a British SAS officer……mercilessly beat a detainee’. What the US were operating in Iraq were ‘death squads’, taking out America’s enemies, in a rerun of the Vietnam War’s Phoenix […]
Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)
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[PDF file]: […] and minds’ operations in countries like Afghanistan are purely psychological operations. She is somewhat mistaken here, as the original hearts and minds process was established by the SAS in conflicts such as those in Oman and Borneo. This included sending medics to treat the local populations with antibiotics, etc, that were not available to […]
Lobster Issue 61 (Summer 2011)
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[PDF file]: […] of Colin Wallace’s superior English officers in Northern Ireland at the time. This is the period when the British MRF was active. A recent book, Tom Siegrist, SAS Warlord (2010), purports to be a memoir of the MRF period. As to its veracity, I have no idea. 13 For details see the case of […]