A British hostage-crisis team of up to 20 specialists, including SAS and police experts, is on standby in London ready to leave for Baghdad and help find the five Britons kidnapped by insurgents in a brazen daylight abduction yesterday, The Times has learnt.
Hundreds of US and Iraqi troops conducted raids in the Shia Muslim suburb [...]

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SYDNEY, Nov 23 (KUNA) — An Australian commando has been killed during an encounter with the Taliban in Afghanistan, it was announced here Friday.
Defense Force Air Chief Marshal Angus Houston confirmed 26-year-old Private Luke Worsley was shot dead 10 kilometers east of Tarin Kowt in Oruzgan Province earlier today.
No other Australian soldiers were injured, he [...]

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Two SAS soldiers have been killed in Iraq during a mission to target suspected suicide bombers.
They died after their RAF Puma helicopter crashed near Baghdad. Two other SAS soldiers were seriously injured in the crash; the RAF crew is thought to have survived.    …..more

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SERGEANT Matt Locke’s funeral will be held tomorrow and he deserves all the gratitude and recognition the nation can give him. Almost 4000 Australian servicemen and women are deployed across the world: in Iraq and Afghanistan, in East Timor and the Solomons, in the Sinai and elsewhere in the Middle East. Every one of them [...]

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Michael Smith - BRITISH special forces have crossed into Iran several times in recent months as part of a secret border war against the Iranian Revolutionary Guard’s Al-Quds special forces, defence sources have disclosed.
There have been at least half a dozen intense firefights between the SAS and arms smugglers, a mixture of Iranians and Shi’ite militiamen.
The [...]

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Australian special forces in Afghanistan have struck at Taliban insurgents in their heartland.
A series of secretive missions were fought over some of the most hostile terrain the commandos and Special Air Service (SAS) troopers have ever experienced, The Australian newspaper reports.
The fight for the south-central Oruzgan province was a pivotal battle and one with crucial [...]

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LONDON, Sept 5 (KUNA) — British military chiefs ordered a 50 million pounds aircraft to be blown up so its high-tech equipment would not fall into enemy hands, it was revealed here Wednesday.
The decision to destroy the specially modified Royal Air Force (RAF) Hercules was made after it crash-landed in a southern Afghan Taliban stronghold, [...]

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The first SAS hero to be killed in action during the current Iraq war is to receive Britain’s second highest gallantry award.
Astonishingly, news of the posthumous award of the Conspicuous Gallantry Cross to Sgt Jonathan Hollingsworth was suppressed by a defence ministry obsessed with keeping details of operations.
It is unknown if even Sgt Hollingsworth’s closest [...]

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The Taliban have warned Australian SAS troops they will be treated as the enemy as soon as they begin their deployment in Afghanistan.
Meanwhile, hundreds of Arab and other Asian foreign fighters have joined the Taliban insurgency, according to the top NATO military commander in Afghanistan.
The insurgents appear in their propaganda videos to be an ill [...]

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THE SAS was on standby today to try to rescue five Britons seized in Baghdad as the leader of the Shia Al-Mahdi army claimed it had seized them as the first stage of forcing the British out of Iraq.
Abu Hussein, a commander of the insurgent group loyal to senior cleric Moqtada Al-Sadr, reportedly pledged there [...]

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