I find that hard to believe
Posted on 04/16/2010 5:16:11 PM PDT by naturalman1975
The doorbell rang at the Royal School of Needlework in Princes Gate, opposite Hyde Park.
The ladies in their twin-sets peered suspiciously out at the scruffy young tough in jeans and hobnail boots standing on the step and asking to come inside. He looked a most unlikely aficionado of embroidery.
When he identified himself as being from ‘the SAS’, they were none the wiser. The name meant nothing to them. They had never heard of it. Nor did the bulk of the population in those days.
But the world would soon see — in the most dramatic fashion — what the SAS was and what its honed and highly-trained men could do.
A modern military legend was about to be born there in Central London, 30 years ago in the spring of 1980.
In an operation that would stun and amaze the millions who watched it unfold, the SAS burst out of the shadows, into the limelight and into history.
.....
In pursuit of international recognition of their demands for independence, six young activists from the region had come to London.
Armed to the teeth with machine guns, pistols and grenades, they had seized the Iranian embassy.
They held 26 hostages — four of them British — and were threatening to kill them.
....
But Margaret Thatcher’s government had already laid down its own ground rules, from which it would not deviate.
Conscious how other countries had wavered when threatened with the increasing number of hostage situations in the world, the prime minister made it clear that no terrorist would be allowed to leave the country.
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Don't mess with the SAS.
Truth!
Don’t mess with the SAS.
SOCOM Ping
Iron Maiden - Where Eagles Dare (based off the movie of same name)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6LuhuSCwUg
The movie on that Embassy operation was the “Final Option”. Another great SAS film is Bravo Two Zero about the LRRP mission in Desert Storm that went badly for SAS team, Bravo Two Zero.
If memory serves me, the star of Final Option passed the selection course for the reservist SAS but his celebrity ended his continuing.
They made a movie based on the events,all i remember is a guy from a British TV show called “The Professionals” was the main star....
Crossfire
Spring light in a hazy May
And a man with a gun at the door
Someone’s crawling on te roof above -
All the media here for the show
I’ve been waiting for our friends to come
Like spiders down ropes to free-fall
A thirty round clip for a visiting card -
Admit one to the embassy ball.
Caught in the crossfire on Princes Gate Avenue
In go the windows and out go the lights
Call me a doctor. Fetch me a policeman
I’m down on the floor in one hell of a fight.
I’m just a soul with an innocent face -
A regular boy dressed in blue
Conducting myself in a proper way
As befitting the job that I do
They came down on me like a ton of bricks
Swept off my feet knocked about
There’s nothing for it but to sit and wait
For the hard men to get me out.
Calm reason floats from the street below
And the snow fuse burns through the night
Everyone tried to talk in through
But they can’t seem to get the deal right
Somewhere there are Brownings in a two-hand hold -
Cocked and locked, one up the spout
There’s nothing for it but to sit and wait
For the hard men to get me out.
With a hat tip to Ian Anderson.
I vividly recall his introduction to this song back in the carter years, “we got our hostages out”.
Thank you,it would have bugged me for awhile....I netflixed it but no movie listed..
Inspired yeah ,i think the last 1/2 hour was the siege thing, all we had was the famous outside shots and this was a little filler in on what went on inside..
My sister would scream every time Bodie came on TV,me i liked “The Sweeney” a little harder cutting.
Collins was a member of the Parachute Regiment of the Territorial Army, which is what they called their Reserves in those days. He was the real deal.
Collins should have been James Bond instead of the little flit who played Remington Steele. Collins was considered, but was not familiar enough to an American audience. So instead we got a painfully thin male model.
The 21st SAS I knew pretty well.
I find that hard to believe
“WHO DARES WINS” was also a Movie back in early 1980’s, starring an Australian Actress Judy Davis:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judy_Davis
That film had the stupidest plot ever. ‘Peace Activists’ taking a load of people hostage and murdering them in cold blood in order to promote a pacifist agenda... Wut?
Talk about worlds colliding!
The film “Who dares wins” was based on a novel called “The tiptoe boys”. It was, unfortunately, not a very good film.
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