SAS in secret war
TWO SAS soldiers rescued last week after being arrested by Iraqi police and handed over to a militia were engaged in a “secret war†against insurgents bringing sophisticated bombs into the country from Iran.
The forces have tried to seal the notoriously porous border with Iran using high-technology sensors that monitor movement by night. They report to a major based in Baghdad in an unmarked building known as the “station houseâ€.
Special forces commanders believe that a tip-off from a local worker at their base may have led to the men’s capture last Monday after a car chase by police, who later handed them to the Mahdi army of Moqtada al-Sadr, the maverick Shi’ite cleric. They were freed from a nearby house.
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