Posted on 06/17/2012 8:20:22 AM PDT by the scotsman
'They killed with apparent impunity, effortlessly dodging capture by the world’s deadliest special forces.
Nothing, it seemed, could stop Al Qaeda’s two top Iraqi terrorists as they orchestrated a campaign of high-profile kidnappings, car bombings and executions in Baghdad and beyond.
At the height of their reign, one of them, Maher Ahmed Mahmoud az-Zubeidi, better known by his alias Abu Rami, was believed to have been responsible for the murders of 200 people each month.
Yet perhaps even more ferocious was his charismatic co-leader, Abu Uthman, whose exploits in two battles in Fallujah earned him the nickname Abu Nimr – The Tiger.
The American military bestowed on him a more prosaic title: Number One HVI (high-value individual).
Uthman was linked to the murder of British aid worker Margaret Hassan and the kidnapping of British peace activist Norman Kember and – like Rami – had the blood of hundreds of soldiers and civilians on his hands.
But by mid-2008, despite years of trying, US special forces were still no nearer tracing either of the men who, helped by a vast network of supporters, rarely slept in the same beds for longer than a few weeks.
The Russians were also searching. Rami was blamed for the beheading of four embassy workers abducted from a diplomatic car in Baghdad and Vladimir Putin put a £7 million price on his head and a team of assassins on his tail.
Until today the true extent of the Al Qaeda men’s murderous influence has never been revealed and neither has the extraordinary story of how they were eventually stopped.
The Mail on Sunday can disclose that it was not US special forces who finally killed Rami and captured Uthman – as was reported at the time by The Washington Post – but the SAS.'
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Bravo to the SAS or whoever did the deed.
The SAS has an incredible history along with its sister/brother units. It’s “who dares wins” as their moto says. Excellent work.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bisto
Typical.
How many “Sargeant A’s” are there in US special forces?
Given that he needed skin-tanning, I assume he’s a gringo. But having the language ability and cultural knowledge that would allow him to pass as a local Iraqi car merchant? Quite impressive.
They were armed with short-barrelled machine guns and carried alsatian dogs. The remaining windows were smashed and the dogs thrown inside.
Scaling down a building while holding a dog takes some skill. Smashing the window while holding the dog and then tossing the dog in takes even more skill. BTW, I had to look up Alsatian to see what kind of dog it is. It is a German Shepherd, just a different name.
Suddenly SAS troopers dressed in black kit scaled the rooftop and swung down.
They were armed with short-barrelled machine guns and carried alsatian dogs. The remaining windows were smashed and the dogs thrown inside.
“Wearing a flowing cotton shirt,...”
Sounds very spiritual doesn’t it. The Leftists in the media do whatever they can to suck up to the Muzzies.
I just call it a dirty night shirt.
Carrying Alsatians while fast roping off a roof in the middle of that Hellhole??????
Blessed Mother, please, please, please don't ever let me piss off one of those little Spector guys. I don't want my big ass knocked out by someone who weighs a buck fifty
Sigh. Spector=specfor
Those wiry guys will kick your ass every time.
Evidently the breed is from the Alsace (Elsass) region. Therefore it's a GermanFrenchGermanFrenchGermanFrench Shepherd.
The dogs were shot and Obama had them for lunch.
“Suddenly SAS troopers dressed in black kit scaled the rooftop and swung down.
They were armed with short-barrelled machine guns and carried alsatian dogs. The remaining windows were smashed and the dogs thrown inside.”
These dudes mean business.
I bet those Moslems were getting major backside pant stains when a pack of trained SAS dogs were let loose.
Kinda reminds me of a sci-fi book I read where it was that humanity was given the gift of the canine species from another planet to eventually become earths savior when a dreaded enemy sweeps across the planet. This alien enemy feared the dogs more so than any weapon the humans possessed, plus the dogs had a secret weapon or two.
I didn’t know a alsatian dog is the same as a German Shepherd
Obama told them how to do it.
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