The British S.A.S

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David Stirling was the founder of SAS. Stirling was born in Scotland on November 15th, 1915. He was the son of Archibald Stirling who coincidently was a British Army Brigadier General and Margaret Fraser. He had attended 3 colleges including Ampleforth, Trinity and Cambridge University. The way Stirling thought he has assumed that a highly skilled unit would be able to operate behind enemy lines and make a horrendous impact (Significant Scots). He worked alongside with Jock Lewis, a British officer of the Welsh Guards, who thought similarly as Stirling which has led to the formation of the SAS itself. There first mission had ended up being a disaster, Stirling’s parachute caught on the tail of the plane and was injured in the fall and ended up spending 2 months in the hospital. On May 5th, 1980 the world was watching as the SAS was about to perform a life-taking raid on the Iranian Embassy in London against a six-man team known as the 'Democratic Revolutionary Movement for the Liberation of Arabistan' (DRMLA for short) (Barnes). The goal of this team or terrorist association was to draw attention to its demands for the self-determination of the Arab population of Khuzestan. The SAS had gotten into the Embassy by rappelling from the top of the roof into the windows of the Embassy. Surprisingly, the raid had only lasted nearly seventeen minutes long. The raid was a huge success for the rescuing of nineteen of the twenty hostages with all but perfect military performance, although two soldiers were killed by the terrorist’s. In fact, Margaret Thatcher, the prime minister of London at the time, had stated that it was “a brilliant operation” (Barnes). Out of an average intake of 125 candidates, the grueling selection process will cle... ... middle of paper ... ...e the house and were being monitored by Arabic-speaking translators. The house was identified as a base for suicide bombers and had indeed had the presence of 3 suicide bombers that had home-made explosives strapped to their chests (Elite UK Forces). The SAS had really thought about breaking into the building but knew it would be too risky with the homemade explosives exposed to soldiers (Elite UK Forces). Instead of letting them blow the whole building to pieces, it was decided to take on the bombers as they left the building and was absolutely key to shoot all 3 bombers at the same time to prevent any of them from detonating their explosives. Just past 8am the targets exited the house and the command was given over the radio to engage the enemy’s. Immediately, three SAS snipers opened fire. Each bomber was hit in the head and killed instantly (Elite UK Forces).

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