Senior SBS officers told the inquiry of deep concerns that the SAS, fresh from aggressive, high-tempo operations in Iraq, was being driven by kill counts – the number of dead they could achieve ...

The group was backed by Iraq’s Saddam Hussein ... Instead, it was the black-clad gunmen of Britain’s SAS, whose storming of the embassy remains the largest – and most spectacular ...

He also served in Oman, the Falklands and in the Iraq War, where he was shot in the ... full list of demands could not be met. Instead, the SAS would conduct a raid on the building to rescue ...