That time when British SAS soldiers were caught deliberately fueling unrest in Iraq then broken out of prison.

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Most Brits have been brainwashed to believe that the SAS are the best of the best. The good guys who step in when all other options have been exhausted. In their heads they have a flashbulb memory of the Iranian embassy siege in 1980 in which the SAS smashed through the window of the embassy and ended the siege that had been ongoing for 6 days, in 17 minutes.

Tell them that their beloved SAS are anything other than heroes and they will refuse to believe you. This post will hopefully wake some people up to the reality that the British Armed forces are not a force for good but are in fact hired killers, employed to overthrow governments or bomb nations that are not submitting to the will of the west.

The story about the captured SAS men begins on the 19th December 2005. Two undercover SAS operatives disguised as Arabs were driving in a car carrying guns and explosives when they were stopped by the Iraqi police. For some reason the SAS men decided to open fire on the police killing at least one officer. The British government say the men were in Iraq on a surveillance mission called "Operation Hathor", but why they started shooting policemen is something for which answers have not been provided.

The men were chased by the police and eventually captured and imprisoned at Al Jameat police station in Basra, but it wasn't long before they were broken out by more SAS backed up by tanks, infantry and helicopters. The station was encircled and tanks rammed the walls and freed the two SAS men as well as 150 other prisoners in the process.

Here's a picture of the two gentlemen. Just doing their duty to Queen and country ;-)

Here are a couple of articles about the incident. The Wikipedia article not surprisingly paints a nice rosy picture of two men doing their jobs who would have been killed if they hadn't been rescued. The other article paints a more realistic picture in my opinion.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basra_prison_incident

http://www.theinsider.org/news/article.asp?id=1556

The reason why the SAS were working undercover in Iraq and why they work undercover in many other countries around the world along with the CIA/SEALS etc is to divide the populations of the country they are in. It's the classic divide and rule tactic that has been around since the time of Sun Tzu and probably before.

The people who live in the countries invaded or destroyed by Britain/America/NATO get rightfully angry about what has happened to their country and start working together to get the invaders out. Sunnis/Christians/Shias, everyone starts coming together for the greater good of their country and when this happens it scares the hell out of the military leaders. So what do they do? They send undercover agents into the country to plant bombs, kill indiscriminately, cause chaos that can be blamed on the different factions. Divide and rule my friends. Divide and rule.

If you start looking back at other events you can see similar patterns. Snipers on top of buildings in Ukraine shooting pro and anti government people. (Here's an article in which this is discussed http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2573923/Estonian-Foreign-Ministry-confirms-authenticity-leaked-phone-call-discussing-Kiev-snipers-shot-protesters-possibly-hired-Ukraines-new-leaders.html). In Syria right at the start of the so called 'revolution' there were also snipers reported shooting Syrian protesters and police. In Libya the same thing and if you look hard enough you'll find more.

More people need to start questioning the idea that they should blindly support their 'troops' or that wars being waged in their name are just. It doesn't take very long to discover how things really work but when people are more interested in getting to level 300 on Candy Crush it isn't surprising that the death, misery and war continues.

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It would be a life-long vocation to manage the anger that such information ought to inspire.

I used to let these incidents do so - but not any more. Life is more productive and fulfilling when it is not lived in a haze of anger.

That being said, there are very real problems that need to be addressed. Thank you for sharing this as it creates a greater awareness of the issue - and one can only aspire to solve it or see it solved.

I know what you mean. I was having a discussion about this the other day. Someone asked how I could sleep at night with all the stuff I look into (child trafficking, satanic ritual abuse to name a couple) and I said you have to confront these things before you can do anything about it. It is the anger at the injustice that provided the fuel to fight !! At first you reject the information, then you are scared by it but eventually it just makes you angry so you have to speak to people about it. If more people got past the rejection/fear stage and moved onto the anger stage and then directed the anger in a positive way I think the world would change.

That seems quite familiar a feeling. Yes. Being aware of a demon is the first step towards confronting and defeating it. That applies equally to a demon that manifests in the World as well as a demon that manifests within.

The shadows and darkness, literal and symbolic, are their domain, and they shrink from the light. Thus in the light the best fighting chance may be had. As you suggest - there is a process that one undergoes before one is ready.

Yes disgusting my Gramps would be turning in his grave reading this. Old guts and glory in the name of her majesty the queen the 21st century colonialsm which is fading quickly thanks to technology and surveillance. Great story jimbobbill. Upvoted

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