Tag Archives: Special Forces
SAS night march to free hostages
The Sunday Times By David Leppard and Miles Amoore THE SAS made a daring night-time march across the mountains in Afghanistan in a “breathtaking” operation to free the British aid worker Helen Johnston and three other hostages, David Cameron revealed yesterday. Johnston, a 28-year old nutritionist who lived in Stoke Newington, north London, while studying […]
Pakistan approved deadly US airstrike
By Nicci Smith and Miles Amoore The Sunday Times Pakistan gave the go-ahead to American airstrikes last weekend that inadvertently killed 24 of their own troops, according to new claims from US officials. The account is the latest twist in the blame game surrounding the worst friendly fire incident in the history of the 10-year […]
Exclusive: interview with Talib fighter who shot down Navy Seals’ chinook
The Sunday Times A Taliban fighter has given the first account of how his unit fired two “opportunist” rocket-propelled grenades that brought down a Chinook helicopter, killing 38 elite American and Afghan troops in the deadliest attack of Nato’s 10-year campaign. The special forces, some from the unit that killed Osama Bin Laden, had flown […]
Afghan family killed as special forces defy ban on night raids
The Sunday Times THE two helicopters swooped low over a cluster of mud homes, whirling in the cold night sky before landing in a wheat field on the edge of the small Afghan village. From his home nearby, 23-year-old Najibullah Omar strained his eyes in the darkness as he made out the faint shapes of […]
Miles Amoore 