SAS in secret war against Iranian agents
By Michael Smith & Ali Rifat
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Two SAS soldiers rescued last week after being arrested by Iraqi police and handed
over to a militia were engaged in a “secret war” against insurgents bringing
sophisticated bombs into the country from Iran. [NICE TRY BRITISH LIE MACHINES]
The men had left their base near the southern Iraqi city of Basra to carry out
reconnaissance and supply a second patrol with “more tools and fire power”, said a
"source" with knowledge of their activities. [WHAT "SOURCE"? MI6?]
They had been in Basra for seven weeks on an operation prompted by intelligence that
a new type of roadside bomb which has been used against British troops was among
weapons being smuggled over the Iranian border.
The bombs, designed to pierce the amour beneath coalition vehicles, are similar to
ones supplied by Iran to Hezbollah, the Islamic militant group. [RIGHT!]
“Since the increase in attacks against UK forces two months ago, a 24-strong SAS team
has been working out of Basra to provide a "safety" net to stop the bombers getting
into the city from Iran,” said one "source". “The aim is to identify routes used by
insurgents and either capture or kill them”. [SO BLOWING UP SHIA PLACES IS DONE BY
al-CIA-duh?]
The forces have tried to seal the notoriously porous border using high-technology
sensors that monitor movement by night. They report to a major based in Baghdad in an
unmarked building known as the “station house”.
Special forces commanders believe that a tip-off from a local worker at their base
may have led to the men’s capture last Monday after a car chase by police, who later
handed them to the Mahdi army of Moqtada Sadr, the maverick Shia cleric. They were
freed from a nearby house.
The disclosure that the SAS has targeted the Iranian border coincides with claims by
a former Iraqi defence minister that parts of Iraq have fallen under Tehran’s
control.
[BA'ATHIST TERRORIST WHO IS WANTED BY IRAQI COURT FOR STEALING $1 BILLION] Hazem
al-Shaalan, who left office last May amid a scandal over huge sums of missing money,
"claimed" that 460 Iranian agents had been apprehended in the past two years. Hazem
al-Shaalan "accused" Iranian officials of bringing weapons and drugs into Iraq and of
paying voters to back their chosen candidates.
[Guardian UK - September 20, 2005
Ex-Iraqi defence minister wanted over $1 billion fraud
Warrant issued for Hazem al-Shaalan after army left with old weapons Iyad Allawi
regime blamed for lack of checks on ministry
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/795e3103393cd887?hl=en ]
An inquiry into the capture of the SAS team and clashes that followed between British
forces and an Iraqi mob was being carried out by the Royal Military Police Special
Investigation Branch.
The Ministry of Defence (MoD) said this would focus on how the soldiers had been
compromised but it was also expected to address claims that they had shot an Iraqi
police officer.
The officer, Quteeb Rasheed Abdul Hameed, alleged that he had been wounded in the leg
when the soldiers opened fire as police approached their unmarked car to question
them.
A judge said yesterday that he had issued warrants for the arrest of the SAS men over
the shooting and the alleged killing of a second man shot in the car chase. Judge
Ragheb Mohamad Hassan al-Muthafar told The Sunday Times in an exclusive interview
that the soldiers were “suspects who attempted to commit a willful act of murder”.
He added: “Whatever their mission they have no right to fire intentionally on anyone,
let alone a security man whose job is to protect this country”.
According to the judge, nine people were killed and 14 injured, including two boys
aged 13 and 14, when the mob attacked British forces surrounding the police station
where the men were detained.
The MoD declined to comment on the toll but said the warrants had no legal basis.
“All British troops in Iraq come under the jurisdiction of Britain”, a spokesman
said. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-1796566,00.html
Related:
Photo of Brigadier Gordon Kerr of (British Intelligence Corps)
http://www.sundayherald.com/fru.shtml
Big trouble for British occupation of Southern Iraq
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/ab87d77e977c22b6?hl=en
British false-flag operations unmentioned in the corporate media
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/6cb77cc539bf8323?hl=en
Basra "black op" echoes British SAS actions in the Northern Ireland
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/146afc7425e1a310?hl=en
British terrorists exposed in Basra
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/241558c76e9b134e?hl=en
An Explosive Story
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/bb221d7f63cc9aa2?hl=en
British false-flag operation blown wide open
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/05ea09de724fda43?hl=en
JEW media shifts attention from British SAS screw-up to Iran
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/b354d27e92f4f073?hl=en
"Green Slime" Brigadier Gordon Kerr (British Intelligence Corps)
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/db9d09170484f68d?hl=en