It seems that British Special Air Service (SAS) commandos came very close to nailing the biggest hunting trophy in recent history! There is a fascinating article in The Advertiser about how Osama bin Laden came extremely close to getting caught and (probably) killed.
The conflict featured the largest deployment of SAS troops in one battle since the war in Oman in the mid-1970s, the paper said.
“We were within a whisker of getting him. It was a hard battle and will have put the fear of God into his people,” a source close to the regiment was quoted as saying.
“When prisoners were questioned it came out we had just missed him by about two hours,” the source added. Intelligence sources, also contacted by the paper, believed bin Laden fled as the battle began.
“The enemy were facing highly-trained and disciplined troops who, although outnumbered, had the tenacity, professionalism and firepower to terrorise them.
“Bin Laden knows the SAS are not far behind,” one said.
It was during this action that the four British casualties that were recently reported received their injuries. Other accounts have said that the SAS, which usually operates in four man teams, had deployed two entire sabres (the idiosyncratic SAS equivalent of a platoon, or aprox. 60 men per sabre) for the operation.
Let us hope it is only a matter of time before the SAS or their American Delta comrades personally deliver the civilised world’s definitive response for September 11 directly to its author.
Godspeed and good hunting gentlemen.
