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The SAS killed three suicide bombers in Baghdad as part of an undercover, shoot-to-kill operation in Iraq, it can be revealed. A 16-man unit of the SAS, acting on intelligence obtained by an Iraqi agent working for the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6), shot dead the would-be bombers in a combined SAS and American operation in July this year. Details of the mission codenamed Operation Marlborough have remained secret until now - primarily because it was launched in the same week that a Metropolitan Police firearms unit in London shot dead Jean Charles de Menezes, a 27-year-old Brazilian electrician, in the...

NINE SAS colleagues of Warrant Officer David Nary carried his flag-draped coffin as his body was returned to his hometown of Perth. Warrant Officer Nary's four children, his parents and his widow Naomi, a former sergeant in the Australian Army, were at Perth's international airport when his body was brought home from the Middle East late on Thursday night. His SAS mates formed a military bearer party around the coffin, while a condolence note bearing the SAS logo in a local newspaper described him as "a great comrade". A funeral service will be held next week. Warrant Officer Nary -...

NASHVILLE — In late September, Leslie York was among a handful of women at the Tennessee Clay Target Complex in Nashville to become an NRA/USAS/CMP Appointed Shotgun Coaches. She became the state’s first female Appointed Shotgun Coach. York, from White Pigeon, is a staunch advocate of women in the shooting sports and the Michigan State Coordinator of the Second Amendment sisters, a national women’s advocacy group. She is also a Hunter Safety Instructor for the State of Michigan Department of Natural Resources as well as a Shotgun Instructor in Women in the Outdoors events and 4-H Shotgun Instructor. In what...

GUNS are dangerous. But myths are dangerous, too. Myths about guns are very dangerous, because they lead to bad laws. And bad laws kill people. "Don't tell me this bill will not make a difference," said President Clinton, who signed the Brady Bill into law. Sorry. Even the federal government can't say it has made a difference. The Centers for Disease Control did an extensive review of various types of gun control: waiting periods, registration and licensing, and bans on certain firearms. It found that the idea that gun control laws have reduced violent crime is simply a myth.

London, Oct 16. (PTI): Two British soldiers detained by Iraq security forces last month had been spying on a senior police official who was allegedly abusing prisoners, a media report said here today. Britain's Special Air Service (SAS) had been staking out several members of the Iraqi police, who were suspected of torturing prisoners at the Jamiyat prison in Basra, The Sunday Telegraph said. The operation was ordered after the body of an Iraqi, who had been arrested by the police, was found on the outskirts of the city in April. An examination of the corpse showed that his skull,...

LONDON (AFX) - The British defence ministry said Sunday that its senior military police investigator in Iraq had been found dead the previous day at a a base in the southern Iraqi city of Basra. The ministry named the officer as Captain Ken Masters. 'On Saturday 15 October 2005, the body of Captain Ken Masters was discovered in his accommodation in Waterloo Lines, Basra,' the ministry said in a statement. 'He had been responsible for the investigation of all in-theatre serious incidents, plus investigations conducted by the general police duties element of the theatre investigation group.' An inquiry into...

For those of you who will be flying SAS in Europe this month, you might notice the cover article in the Scandanavian Airlines in-flight magazine being about gay porn star Fredrik Eklund. It shows the cover of the porn film's DVD and, for example, the following quote "A gorgeous Swede with a sexy accent and a big Swedish sausage in his long-legged jeans" Anyone wishing to express an opinion to SAS may contact the guilty parties: jan.kotschack@sasmedia.se (editor-in-chief) henrik.harr@sasmedia.se (Senior Editor) thomas.sjoberg@sasmedia.se (Senior Editor)

Gun enthusiasts were handed a legal victory this week when a federal judge ruled they can argue that their free-speech rights are violated by an Alameda County ordinance that bans guns on county property. In a ruling issued Tuesday, U.S. District Court Judge Martin J. Jenkins cleared the way for a new First Amendment challenge to the 1999 ordinance. County attorneys had asked the judge to dismiss the challenge, arguing that the gun ban is a public safety issue rather than a constitutional one, but Jenkins said the plaintiffs had sufficient grounds to continue with their lawsuit. "Plaintiffs have articulated...

Australian forces in Afghanistan have emerged virtually unscathed from their first combat missions, announcing they had inflicted heavy losses on anti-Kabul forces who attacked them twice last week. An unnamed Australian soldier received a "superficial" wound. All returned to base safely, reporting that they had killed 10 and possibly "significantly more" of the enemy. Breaking from a round of meetings in Kabul yesterday, Defence Minister Robert Hill gave sketchy detail of two encounters by joint patrols of the Australian SAS and the Afghan National Army in an undisclosed part of the country. "In the last few days there were two...

LONDON - The two British special forces soldiers dramatically freed in an attack on an Iraqi police station this week were part of a team monitoring militant infiltration from Iran, the Sunday Times said. Citing an unnamed source, the newspaper said special forces troops had been based near the southern city of Basra for weeks tracking the suppliers of armour-piercing roadside bombs believed to have come over the nearby border with Iran. "Since the increase in attacks against UK forces two months ago, a 24-strong SAS team has been working out of Basra to provide a safety net to stop...

CITY OF SAN FERNANDO — “It’s better to have a gun and not use it than to have none when you need it.” Within the guiding principle, San Fernando City Councilor Alex F. Patio is taking steps to promote responsible gun ownership, especially among media personalities. As a step, Patio will be opening on Saturday his first-ever shooting competition at the Maimpis Firing Range in Barangay Maimpis in the city dubbed as the “1st Councilor Alex F. Patio Cup”. Patio said the competition, which will be sanctioned by the Philippine Practical Shooters Association (PPSA), aims to show the public the...

Iraq's National Security Adviser Muwafaq al-Rubaie has admitted the country's security forces have been infiltrated by insurgents. snip The Iraqi government has launched an inquiry into events surrounding the arrest of the British soldiers on Monday, both thought to be members of the SAS elite special forces. snip The British Army confirmed the troops had been handed over by police to a Shia militia group.

If I gave you $7,000 to spend on whatever you wanted, what would you buy? Seven thousand dollars may not be a huge sum of money, but it is still a significant chunk of change. I mean, you could buy a car, pay your room and board at EMU for the year, or have 70% of the buy-in for the World Series of Poker main event. The list is almost endless, but there is one item in particular that really struck me as surprising when I learned that my gift money could purchase it. It is the Barrett M82A1 sniper...

CBS/AP) Fighting eased Sunday, the second day of a U.S. and Iraqi sweep through the militant stronghold of Tal Afar near the Syrian border, as insurgents melted into the countryside, many escaping through a tunnel network dug under an ancient northern city. Iraqi and U.S. military officials vowed to expand the offensive. The 8,500-strong Iraqi-U.S. force continued house-to-house searches, and military leaders said the assault would push all along the Syrian frontier and in the Euphrates River valley. Cities and towns along the fabled river are bastions of the insurgency, a collection of foreign fighters and disaffected Sunni Muslims, many...

BRITISH Army officers in Iraq are being handed stashes of up to £100,000 in cash for “operational expenses” without formal controls on how it is spent. The money is used by the SAS and other units to buy off leaders of the insurgency or to purchase weapons on the black market to avoid them passing into rebel hands. The decades-old tradition of paying so-called “porter money” to officers is understood to be the focus of a wide-ranging internal inquiry in the SAS. It follows allegations earlier this year that hundreds of thousands of pounds may have been misappropriated during SAS...

Prime Minister John Howard has paid tribute to Australia's secret warriors to whom he has given more work and more money than any previous Australian government. Officially launching a new book on the Special Air Service (SAS) Regiment, Mr Howard said he felt a special obligation to the SAS, as well as all others in the defence force - because he had sent them into danger in Iraq and Afghanistan. "It is true that in the time that I have been prime minister the activities of the SAS have been the most intense since the time the regiment was formed,"...

THE Australian SAS is renowned for the ferocity and discipline of its fighters. As IAN McPHEDRAN explains in this extract from his new book, Afghanistan provided the regiment with one of its greatest challenges NERVES were taut as two American helicopters descended through pale moonlight into the ancient city of Kandahar for a historic council of war. Australia's top special forces soldier, Lieutenant Colonel Peter "Gus" Gilmore, the commanding officer of the Special Air Service Regiment, was one of a select group of men on board. For an hour they had flown low and fast across the barren landscape of...

I'm not a member of the National Rifle Association. It's never furnished me with a dime, and I don't expect any campaign contributions anytime soon. That should make me unique because, to hear media accounts, I must be the only person in America who isn't on the NRA payroll yet agrees with the bill the Senate passed Friday banning frivolous liability lawsuits against gun companies. There are several reasons those lawsuits irritate me. The first developed about 10 years ago in Nevada when a burglar broke into our house one night when I was at work, and my wife was...

THE SAS has been working in London since the 21/7 attempted suicide bomb attacks. But after Brazilian Jean Charles de Menezes was shot they were all called back to Hereford. Everything stopped for three days while an investigation went on. Now they are back in town. Yesterday I saw two of the guys in action, working with the police elite SO19 firearm squad. They wore T-shirts and jeans with body armour and ski masks and carried MP5 automatics and a side arm, probably a SIG 226 or 228 The skills they have above the police are, for example, explosive entry...

Is IANSA calling for a global ban on guns? Does IANSA think that nobody should own guns? Our members around the world are working to reduce gun ownership in their communities because that is what will make people safer. The situation varies from country to country; at a minimum, we believe that private gun ownership should be subject to basic standards including gun licensing an registration, with a ban on civilian owner ship of military weapons. In many countries if you want to drive a car you need a driver's license, and if you want to buy a car, the...