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Subject: The SAS saving the British sailors?
Drazhar    3/30/2007 8:28:39 PM
It has occured to me, why haven't the SAS or SBS been able to free the prisoners? Surely, we could of easily fielded 20-30 SAS in order to save them?
 
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GOP       3/31/2007 2:34:19 PM

""The list contained 5 or 6 targets total, and the SAS returned 6 days laters with everyone on the list""



Do you know more about this ? Where were the targets , etc ?

And : it is any truth in it ?



Cheers .



Honestly, I highly doubt this. Why I do believe any defectors could have been picked up by the SAS, I don not believe it is legal to kidnap HVT's in peace time.
 
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perfectgeneral       3/31/2007 3:04:13 PM
Honestly, I highly doubt this. Why I do believe any defectors could have been picked up by the SAS, I don not believe it is legal to kidnap HVT's in peace time.

Is it legal to kidnap RN personnel?
 
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GOP       3/31/2007 5:13:11 PM

Honestly, I highly doubt
this. Why I do believe any defectors could have been picked up by the
SAS, I don not believe it is legal to kidnap HVT's in peace time.

Is it legal to kidnap RN personnel?


No. The difference is that we (the US and Britain) play by the rules, they don't. You know that.
 
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chulk       4/1/2007 1:20:05 AM
I'm still trying to find an open source to cite regarding the mission I mentioned above, but suffice to say, the SAS definitely have the capability to operate in hostile territory and to take high value personnel out of thin air.  Its not the kind of thing you see mentioned on the front page of major papers for the reasons discussed above.  Lets just say if Tony Blair wanted to show some Iranians on TV in the near future he could certainly do so.  I did find an open source along the lines of what I'm talking about that is more recent though: http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=436822003 Suffice to say, if you were to check the chronology carefully, you can see these forces were operating in Iraq prior to the commencement of Enduring Freedom in Iraq on March 20th, 2003, and performing this kind of mission.
 
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chulk       4/1/2007 1:26:21 AM
The link didn't work when I tried it, guess you'll have to past this into your URL: http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=436822003
 
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chulk       4/1/2007 1:36:04 AM
Wow, it doesn't really want to paste this link:w http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=436822003.
 
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chulk       4/1/2007 2:01:45 AM
Wow, it doesn't really want to paste this link:w http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=436822003.
 
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USN-MID       4/1/2007 2:54:44 AM
The situation is a little different when your "shopping list" consists of prisoners held behind bars, under close guard and scrutiny, in a military facility.
 
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chulk       4/1/2007 2:13:34 PM
Wow, it doesn't really want to paste this link:w http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=436822003.
 
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Sucari       4/10/2007 6:00:43 PM
Well getting them in would work, using discuise and stuff, they would probaly be able to get in and free the prisoners, but getting out would be  the real tuff/borderline impossible part.
 
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