But a funny thing happened after the killing of McVeigh. The three men who killed him were in a car and atter the shooting the vehicle straight through a British Army checkpoint without being stopped.
There it is, in the SAS handbook, 'Counter Revolutionary Operations', duties include: ' naison ana Orgalisauol, ani" ing and control of, friendly guerilla forces operating against the common enemy Patrick McVeigh was shot by the SAS as part of the atintimidate Catholic community. George Lennox elsewhere on this page, such is the pattern of SAs activity.
But back to Fleet Street and this time the Daily Mail: bold and successful sortie has restored the balance and the forces of law and DaCk UlUD...
"This success cannot fail to have wider and very beneficial effects. It shows to our own people that men of violence can of violence' perhaps, James Taylor, was shot dead by the SAS in September 1978 on the shores of Lough Neath in the North of And Taylor certainly was violent — he shot ducks! Mr. Taylor and his son Jason drove SAS: chocolate colour on their faces.
the As writes It was while he was out fowl The hunting that the SAS struck.
James returned to his car with put his uncle Given tyres on the car had been let down. James strolled over to a car parkea neardy ask the occupants if they knew anything about the tyres.
He was like, bullets. Said his uncle later:
was a shocking thing to happen. There was no given.' The killers, it was confirmed, They were never prosecuted.
The Daily Star wasn't even in existence in those days. But it was last week and its 'political editor', David Buchan, mented: "The SAS troops have made the rest of the world hold its breath.' Billy Hanna holding his breath since 21 June 1979. In the early hours of the morning of that day he was on his way home to the Loyalist Shankill Road The SAS struck when he was walktag in the vicinity of three members of the IRA.
unarmed, who they were and shot them dead. Just to be sure no one, GEORGE Lennox was a corporal in the Royal Army Ordnance Corps stationed in Aden in 1964. Here's his experience of the I knew that the Special Air Service was called into Aden to act as an undercover, covertly to act in an overtly provocative role.
The SAS and other volunteers were stationed inside Aden and those who could speak the. language were dressed up as Adenis, They went out into the streets and they had the names of suspected so-called terrorists and those who were heading the then illegal political opposition, and they had instructions to seek them out and to assassinate them, kill them.
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deflated met with a hail of warning lalc were in the SAS Coll Billy Hanna has been even an Hanna well.
district the anything Duel were but the SAS knew Wins.
groups, one was the NLF and the other was the Front for the Liberation of South Yemen. 'The SAS's role was to create confusion within both political organisations.
They would go out and bump off a couple of the FLOSY guys and in turn this would be put out by the Army press as being an inter-group fight.
And of course this would make the FLOSY group take on a retaliatory role and go and seek off a couple of these people. *Taken from British Soldiers Speak Out on Ireland, produced by Information on Ireland, 1 North End Rd, London W14. Price 30p plus 15p p&p. police. in court.
ture in Many workers? innocent like Billy Hanna, lived to tell the tale, assassinated true Brits But forget that, after all the Sun tells us: "The SAS are Britain's crack Secret Army. They go-anywhere, SAS troops. And heroes, their bold motto is: Who dares unionists John Boyle didn't win. He was: killed by the SAS on 11