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You're not doing any favours revealing the identities of the SAS troops. I know they are shown on sites such as yahoo search but everywhere else the face is blurred. Don't spread the identities of OUR heroes.
I have the utmost respect for the British troops and the SAS.
A British soldier is Britain's hero dead OR alive. Whether a soldier had been tortured or not he's still OUR hero.
Retired or not, still a hero.
It was not a major mess whatsover. This was a heroicly successful mission. Our troops should be proud of themselves, they are true heros. Those 2 SAS heroes were handed over to blood-thirsty Mehdi Army insurgents loyal to rebel Shiite cleric Moqtada al Sadr, the type of people that like to behead westerners. These 2 men have wives, children, mothers and fathers back home and if we hadn't have used force we would have lost OUR heroes. Under the law those 2 soldiers should have been handed back immediately but were instead handed over to insurgents. They wore Arab clothing because thats what normal Arabs wear. They mixed in with the environment as they are expected to. Do you not know that they do this ALL the time? They did this in the past gulf wars and they are doing it now. Hello? This is what war is all about. Those SAS soldiers were keeping an eye on the Iraqi police as they allegedly received intelligence that insurgents were among the Iraqi police force. It appears to be true.
They were arrested and then negotiations were held for their release but there was no hope of them being handed back. It's the law, even Iraqi law, that they are to hand coalition troops back but they refused to. Instead, they handed them over to Mehdi Army insurgents loyal to rebel Shiite cleric Moqtada al Sadr.
In response our troops correctly used force to take back their own men. It was the correct thing to do. God Bless the British troops. We are proud of you. The majority of the nation is proud of you.