THE Special Air Service is the psychopathic scum of the British Army. murderers, sadists and torturers. This needs to be said as the Tory government and the British media call upon us all to celebrate the killing by the SAS of three 'gunmen' who had seized the Iranian embassy in LonWhatever the that seizure, the 'victory' of the SAS is not one that should be hailed by working people.
Certainly the SAS was in need of some sort of morale boosting exercise.
Only last week in Belfast one of its members, described euphemistically at the time as a British soldier working undercover', Provisional IRA.
This followed the severe wound: ing of another such element in the North of Ireland town of Enniskillen the previous week. Mistake Ann This supposedly 'crack regiment' has not had much success in Ireland of late. One of its last recorded 'kills' was on New Year's Eve in County Armagh. The only problem was the vic tim was a British soldier ambushed 'by mistake'.
Earlier in 1979 another 'mistake' was the killing of 16-year-old John Boyle - shot in the back by the SAS because he was unfortunate enough to wander in the direction of an IRA arms-dump.
The other recent deaths attributed to the 'Who dares wins' brigade have been of its own members, several of whom have died training' over the last year.
Nor does it say a great deal for the SAS that it helped to train the US soldiers who crashed into each other in an Iranian desert.
But although the SAS is, by and large, a rather incompetent band of been thugs its purpose is serious.
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Complete and return to: Socialist Challenge, 328 Upper Street, London N Orders is to assassinate Republican suspects part of Britain's 'peace-keeping' A number of unarmed suspects have indeed been murdered by the SAS, as have been some passers-by who have strolled into the SAS's line The SAS has performed a similar role in other countries with which has 'friendly relations'. Specifically it was used by the Sultan of Oman in the early 1970s against a popular uprising this despot was then The function of the regiment is in Army's document "Counter says that one aim of the SAS is to run Operations' which 'assassination parties' Now for the first time the regiment has been used in Britain itself. is unlikely that the full facts behind the storming of the embassy will ever be allowed to emerge. All that the public is told is that they have to ap plaud the heroism ' of the SAS the main ideologue of the Brigadier Frank Kitson, once 'It is difficult for the British with their traditions of stability to imagine disorders beyond the powers of the police to handle but there are already indications that such a situation could Us tomorrow 'If a genuine and serious grievance arose, and such might result from a significant drop in the standard of living, all those who now dissipate their protest over a wide variety of causes nignt concentrate wich cuorts..
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