Kember's Rescue: The Inside Story Torcuil Crichton Unravels the Details of a Complex and Delicate Operation
Sunday Herald › March 27, 2006
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THE Number One, the soldier first through the door when it was blown off its hinges, would want to know just what was on the other side.
By the time the SAS trooper crouched next to the entrance of a house in the semi-rural area north of Baghdad just after dawn on Thursday morning, he would have hoped that all the intelligence had been right, that he would find exactly what he was looking for.See the full content of this document
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Kember's Rescue: The Inside Story Torcuil Crichton Unravels the Details of a Complex and Delicate Operation
By the time that point had been reached, several million pounds had been spent on a highly sophisticated surveillance operation and sweaty, dangerous, low-level information gathering. And the next few seconds would determine just how good British military intelligence had been at its job over the last four months.
As the arrowhead of the military operation, the Number One knew he and his Kevlar-clad colleagues were ready. The SAS detachment ...See the full content of this document
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